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An increasing number of bride-burnings or dowry murders have been reported from India. These are cases of married women being murdered, usually burned to death, by husbands or in-laws whose demands for more dowry from the bride's family remain unmet. Using published accounts of these incidents along with interview material from one woman who escaped burning, this article examines the problem in terms of recent changes in women's roles and sources of female power. It is tentatively suggested that bride-burnings not only reflect women's relative lack of economic power in modern India, but might also reflect a diminishing of the power Indian women traditionally exercised through their fertility. |
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