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Dowry Violence

 Dowry Violence  Excerpts from the title Dowry is a Serious Economic Violence: Rethinking Dowry Law in India For more see this book https://www.amazon.in/Dowry-Serious-Economic-Violence-Rethinking/dp/B0C5KLDF3P Arendt [1] in her renowned book titled Eichmann in Jerusalem, applied the phrase ` banality of evil’ to determine how, during the Holocaust, ordinary people committed extraordinary crimes and yet escaped their criminal liabilities because the grave seriousness of the crime was trivialized, routinized, and reduced to `banality’. In the Nazi regime, irrevocable crimes against humanity were committed in a systematic way on a daily basis and accepted without moral repulsion or political indignation [2] . In the same way, for decades, the horrific crimes of dowry violence and wrongful deaths have been reduced to ` banality’ in India.  Dowry-related violence is not only destroying lives, but it is also adversely affecting the way society contemplates it and distances itself from
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  Judith Butler (2020) described some lives as `ungrievable’ which cannot be mourned for because they never lived and remained uncounted. Perhaps, women who are dying due to dowry violence in homes are such ungrievable, uncounted lives – the lives that no one wants to protect, no one wants to mourn, and no one wants to remember.   For more see this book https://www.amazon.in/Dowry-Serious-Economic-Violence-Rethinking/dp/B0C5KLDF3P
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  Dowry is a Serious Economic Violence: Rethinking Dowry Law in India  Hardcover – 13 May 2023 This book is about the prevailing practices of dowry, its mechanisms, and the dowry laws as they exist in India. It argues that the practice of dowry is evolving in the commercialized neoliberal while the law has failed to keep pace with the socio-economic changes. Dowry, as it is practiced today, involves gruesome forms of economic violence, including extortion, blackmail, and exploitation of women and their families. The current legal framework ignores this  triad of oppression  consisting of compulsive, arbitrary  dowry demands ,  coercion , and dowry-related  violence,  and therefore, it suggests rethinking the socio-legal discourse surrounding dowry in India.
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  दहेज प्रथा अभी भी क्यों कायम है जब कानून द्वारा इसे प्रतिबंधित कर दिया गया? 30 Dec 2022 शिंदे ने तब समाज में व्याप्त गहरी असमानताओं पर सवाल उठाए। परिवारों और समाजों के भीतर संरचनात्मक भेदभाव और असमानताओं से संबंधित ये प्रश्न आज के संदर्भ में अभी भी मान्य हैं और इन पर चर्चा, बहस और उत्तर की आवश्यकता है।  हर दिन मरने से एक बार मरना बेहतर है ... हम मरना नहीं चाहते हैं लेकिन मौत उनके दुर्व्यवहार से बेहतर है"। "हमारी मौत का कारण हमारे ससुराल वाले हैं"।  कमलेश, ममता और मीना का अपने एक रिश्तेदार को एक व्हाट्सएप संदेश (तीन बहनें जिन्होंने जून 2022 में साथ आत्महत्या कर ली थी)  जून 2022 में, तीन बहनें , कमलेश, ममता (दोनों गर्भवती थीं) और मीना, चार साल के बच्चे और एक 22 दिन के शिशु के साथ एक कुएं में मृत पाई गईं। घटना जयपुर के बाहरी इलाके में एक गांव की है। बहनों ने शायद पूरी तरह असहाय अवस्था में आत्महत्या कर ली। उन्होंने अपने वैवाहिक परिवार को, जिसने मोटी रकम की मांग की, दोषी ठहराते हुए यह संदेश छोड़ा। बहनों ने तीन भाइयों के साथ एक ही घर में शादी की। उनके पिता सरदार मीणा ने बताय