What is dowry? (Answer in one sentence)
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Dowry refers to a part or an amount in cash or kind, or gifts or materials or part of a parental property that is given to a daughter for her marriage.
This is also called dower.
Every year in a country like India, multiple dowry deaths are reported which often go unnoticed because the police and the administration are not quite strict about it.
In India, dowry system refers to the durable goods such as cash, property and movable assets that can be given to the bridegroom family by bride’s family.
This is a condition of the marriage.
Earlier, dowry was given in a nature of cash and today, people can find other goods such electronic appliances, property, furniture, bedding, crockery, utensils and other household items as gifts which are given by the bridegroom family by bride’s family in the name of dowry.