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September 2008 
Where Women are Adored, Gods are Delighted
Posted on Nov 25th, 2007
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pRiMaLeVe
pRiMaLeVe
M.issing I.n A.ction ~+ The Water Women of India
"Young married women in India are routinely tortured and murdered by their husbands and in-laws whose demands for additional dowry from the bride's family are not met. This practise has now escalated to such a degree that it has assumed the form of a culture-specific homicidal tradition in India.
In many of these cases the woman is killed in a staged fire related accident, usually in the kitchen. Hence the cultural pervasiveness of ungainly terms like "bride burning" and "dowry death". However, there are also staged suicides that involve hanging or the consumption of pills and poison. A majority of these cases go uninvestigated and are written off as accidents or suicides when the murderers go scott free. This is perhaps one of the primary reasons for the lawless increase of these crimes.
In 2004, Amnesty International reported that at least 15000 women were being murdered in India, in dowry related cases. Other grassroots women's organizations in India estimate the number to be much higher. The Ahmedabad Women's Action group for example has estimated that at least 1000 women were killed each year in dowry related homicides in the state of Gujrat alone. And American television journalist, Lisa Ling while investigating dowry murders in the city of Bangalore was informed by local NGOs and hospitals working on such cases, that in that city alone, there could be as many as 1200 each year.
...Due to a traditional preference for sons, daughters are regularly dispensed with through selective abortions and the practise of infanticide. It is also estimated that between 7,000-10,000 women are annually murdered by their in-laws and husbands, after being subjected to extended physical and mental torture..."
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"Young married women in India are routinely tortured and murdered by their husbands and in-laws whose demands for additional dowry from the bride's family are not met. This practise has now escalated to such a degree that it has assumed the form of a culture-specific homicidal tradition in India.
In many of these cases the woman is killed in a staged fire related accident, usually in the kitchen. Hence the cultural pervasiveness of ungainly terms like "bride burning" and "dowry death". However, there are also staged suicides that involve hanging or the consumption of pills and poison. A majority of these cases go uninvestigated and are written off as accidents or suicides when the murderers go scott free. This is perhaps one of the primary reasons for the lawless increase of these crimes.
In 2004, Amnesty International reported that at least 15000 women were being murdered in India, in dowry related cases. Other grassroots women's organizations in India estimate the number to be much higher. The Ahmedabad Women's Action group for example has estimated that at least 1000 women were killed each year in dowry related homicides in the state of Gujrat alone. And American television journalist, Lisa Ling while investigating dowry murders in the city of Bangalore was informed by local NGOs and hospitals working on such cases, that in that city alone, there could be as many as 1200 each year.
...Due to a traditional preference for sons, daughters are regularly dispensed with through selective abortions and the practise of infanticide. It is also estimated that between 7,000-10,000 women are annually murdered by their in-laws and husbands, after being subjected to extended physical and mental torture..."
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Panihari: The Water Women of India
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