This is why Indian Ladies pay their men's dowry during marriage

This is why Indian Ladies pay their men's dowry during marriage


Bride price, the term refers to money or gifts paid by the groom's side to the bride's side for the bride's virginity. The custom is followed in certain tribal societies across the world.

Similar to almost all the human societies in the world, in India too traditionally not much importance has been paid on men's virginity. Even though the girl's parents try to make sure that the guy didn't have girlfriends etc all through his bachelor's life (any such relationship is looked down by the girl's parents), the investigations aren't really very thorough. The main focus is on the boy's decency and money/real estate/income.

As far as dowry is concerned, yes, the practice is prevalent in India. And there are strong reasons behind this.

1) The law mandates the Right to the inheritance of property to girls, i.e. equal share for sons and daughters, but it's not in the culture, and isn't followed except in certain exceptional cases.

2) Traditionally, Streedhan was paid by girls' parents. Streedhan is basically expensive items, jewelry, gold, furniture, etc which would belong to the girl. This practice mixed up with the Mughal and European practices taking the form of Dahej.

Dahej(Dowry):

Dahej is the amount(cash) or expensive gifts paid by the girl's parents to the groom's side. Note the difference: Streedhan belongs exclusively to the girl and is in the form of less liquid modes. While Dahej is gifted to the boy, his parents(knowing that in tribal societies in India, which remained largely outside the influence of Mughals and Europeans, the dowry system is absent or is minimal).

3) One of the reasons for the continuance of this system is the backwardness of girls. All girls wish to marry “well-settled rich” boys. While they themselves do nothing, adding no value to the boys economically. Of course, their role as housewives shouldn't be undermined, but there's a catch. A rikshawala's housewife has to work much more and support much more than a middle class or upper-class housewife. The view that the husband's income as a result of equal efforts of him as well as his housewife is quite misguided.

4) Thus, it boils down to demand and supply rule. The girl's side wishes to get the “well-settled rich boy” by paying a price to get acceptance for their poorly educated but beautifully maintained girl. Similarly, the boy's side looks for the best deal apart from the “Sundar and Sushil thing”(Beauty and nature).

If you call this “groom's price”, I won't hold you wrong. Because! Traditionally the importance given to girls virginity is analogous to the importance given to the groom's wealth. In fact many of the housewives in India proudly feel that their parents have “bought” the best guy.

However, as more and more girls are entering the economic arena now, the situation is changing. Working girls either don't have to pay dowry, or the amount is substantially low. (Even in these cases, the reason for dowry is that the girls almost always seek a guy with a higher status). Of course, exceptions can not be ruled out.

The only thing that has not changed is that, girls still have practically no right of inheritance of their parental properties. The rights exist only in paper. And in my view, it'll never change. The reason is, the law is a top-down approach to enforcing the law. Society doesn't support it.

Ironically, the best way to implement the right of inheritance for girls would have been by mandating Streedhan at the time of marriage!

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