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