or property for the stablishment of a new household, to help a husband feed and protect his family and to give the wife and children some support if he were to die.
The dowry is the heritage that the wife or her family deliver to the husband, being in many cases proportionally to the social status of him.
Now days, are some cases of dowry deaths, and this is happend because is another way for empowered males to exert their superiority and power. But another explanation is that every day families and in this specific case men are interested in money, so if their wife die, they can get marry with another woman so they can receive other dowry.
This dowry deaths are explain to the authorities as accidents, and it seems that they don't want to give a lot of importance to the case.
I think that in India the women are not treated as a human beings who have the same rights that men, but they are treated as machines to do children and to give their heritage in the moment that they get marry.
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