"Usually at a wedding, there's a solemn point when you'll see the bride and her mother clinging to each other, crying," Mortenson says. "The groom's father piles up sacks of flour and bags of sugar, and promises of goats and rams, while the bride's father folds his arms and turns his back, demanding more. When he considers the price fair, he turns around and nods. Then all hell breaks loose. I've seen men in the groom's family literally trying to pry the bride and her mother apart with all their strength, while the women scream and wail. If a bride leaves an isolated village like Korphe, she knows she may never see her family again."
If you lived in Pre-Mortentson era what wealth would you ask the groom's father in exchange of ur daughter?
J/k'.
I am not sure about north but most of the places in south, it is a bottomless problem and Dowry is still a pest that's preying on many women. Were u ever been an unfortunate and helpless witness to this crime? Would you take/give dowry to get married? And last but not the least, which is the effective way to deal with this problem or is there any way to deal with this problem at all?
Even in the north, it is often a bottom-less pit... Especially amongst the baniyas... Ironically, the more their children study, the more the demand for dowry is... 😕
It isn't completely bad however... I know for a fact that followers of Arya Samaj have a strict restriction against the practice... My parents' wedding was without any dowry exchange (and without an iota of doubt, my mum brought infinitely more to the household than any dowry could)---
Educating people is perhaps a way to go. Banning it should work too... But neither of these actually work in India. God knows how this would solve...
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