Unshackling the Dowry Debate : Re-assessing Marital breakdown and conjugal violence

This interdisciplinary study re-examines contemporary understandings of the role p.layed by dowry in situations of marital breakdown and conjugal violence in India. It challenges the assumption that dowry lies at the centre of alleged cases of cruelty and unnatural deaths of married women. In additi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gloster Wyatt, Robin James
Published: SOAS, University of London 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487127