why is dowry a social evil?
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in dowry it is that to irritate the women which is also a. social evil......
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In the early days dowry was an institution in which gifts and presents were given to a girl at the time of her marriage when she was required to leave her parents’ home and join her husband’s household. But, in course of time, it became a crude institution resulting in female infanticide, suicide, bride-burning and other indignities and cruelties.
The problem of dowry has become a serious social evil among the upper castes and middle classes both in towns and villages. The rules of marriage, namely, caste endogamy and clan exogamy, and anuloma (hypergamy) and pratiloma (hypogamy), have been misinterpreted and misused for maintaining the dowry system. These rules restrict the choice of mate selection, as marriage takes place within one’s caste and outside one’s clan.
Further, a girl needs to be married to a boy who belongs to a family with a status higher than that of her family. This practice of marriage alliance is known as hypergamy or anuloma. When a girl is married to a boy whose family status is lower than that of the girl’s, it is known as hypogamy or pratiloma. Thus, anuloma has restricted choice and created a desire to give away a girl through marriage to a superior family.
A boy becomes a more valued object than a girl. The net result, therefore, is dowry: the giving of material goods and cash to the parents of the boy at the time of fixing the marriage, at the performance of marriage and even afterwards on several other occasions. This practice has become a serious social problem.