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Domestic violence and dowry: evidence from a south Indian village [PDF]

dowry; marriage; women; violence against women; women's status; men; social status; social implications; gender equality; India;
Bedi, A.S., Srinivasan, S.
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Using new literatures as a resource in fostering cross cultural awareness [PDF]

, 2007
This paper is based on the premise that the wealth of new literatures in English that are available in several countries of Asia and South East Asia today can serve not only to provide students access to the rich and varied cultural life of the people in
Rubdy, Rani Sumant
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Rapid Decreases and Performance Declines in Northeast Pacific Seamount Foundation Species Detected in an Oxygen Minimum Zone

Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 4, April 2026.
Across 12 long‐term monitoring sites on three Northeast Pacific seamounts, 163 of 844 cold‐water coral and sponge individuals were lost between surveys 3–5 years apart, with abundance declining at five sites and condition (i.e., health) declining at nine.
Lindsay Clark, Cherisse Du Preez, Georgia Clyde, Amanda E. Bates   +3 more
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Why Dowry Payments Declined With Modernisation in Europe but are Rising in India [PDF]

In contrast to most dowry oriented societies where payments have declined with modernisation, those in India have undergone significant inflation over the last five decades.This paper explains the difference between these two experiences by focusing on ...
Anderson, K.S.
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Gender, Marriage and the Elites in India

Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on Indian marriages is vast and interesting, with insights into structural practices and transformations, everyday realities, and maintenance of boundaries and hierarchies of groups. To understand these aspects, studies have focussed on specific caste groups, religious and regional communities, bourgeoning urban areas and emerging ...
Parul Bhandari
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Why the Marriage Squeeze Cannot Cause Dowry Inflation [PDF]

It has been argued that rising dowry payments are caused by population growth.According to that explanation, termed the `marriage squeeze', a population increase leads to an excess supply of brides since men marry younger women.As a result, dowry ...
Anderson, K.S.
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MARRIAGE AND THE DOWRY IN ROMAN LAW [PDF]

Journal of Process Management and New Technologies, 2014
In the beginning, the marriage and the dowry were regulated by a custom law and the moral norms were primary at the time. When the marriage became socially and materially significant it became the subject of Civil Code articles.
Ljupka B.Petrevska, Aleksandra A. Jovanović   +1 more
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Population Growth and Rising Dowries: The Long-Run Mechanism of a Marriage Squeeze [PDF]

India has experienced a much-documented dowry inflation since the 1950s, which has been attributed to a spurt in population growth post-World War II. Will recent declines in fertility lead to a reversal of this trend and a regime of bride price? My paper
Sudeshna Maitra
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India's Missing Women: Disentangling Cultural, Political and Economic Variables [PDF]

The severe anti-female bias in natality and child mortality that gives rise to India's missing women has been widely documented and various explanations ranging from agricultural labor demand to dowries have been offered in the literature.
Martin Ranger, Rubiana Chamarbagwala
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Exploitation of Dowry Against Muslim Women In Papua

Yinyang: Jurnal Studi Islam, Gender dan Anak
The dowry has often been a trigger for domestic violence due to misunderstandings surrounding its purpose. It is assumed that once the husband has paid the dowry to the wife, he has full rights over her.
Laili Shofiya Kurniawati, Sugimin
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