International Research journal of Management Sociology & Humanities
( ISSN 2277 - 9809 (online) ISSN 2348 - 9359 (Print) ) New DOI : 10.32804/IRJMSH
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DOWRY: A CURSE FOR INDIAN SOCIETY (FAILURES OF EXISTING LEGISLATIONS DEALING WITH IT & REMEDIES NEEDED)
1 Author(s): MISS. TARU MISHRA
Vol - 5, Issue- 4 , Page(s) : 246 - 261 (2014 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
“Want a beautiful, fair, tall, homely graduate kayastha girl for kayastha Budhya handsome groom, marketing officer in a MNC, 27/179/50,000 Graduate. Father engineer, owns 2 storied house.” Every day we come across such types of advertisements in almost all leading dallies. These advertisements are in themselves enough to show the transformation that marriage has undergone in the Indian society. Diverging itself from what once was considered as a purely scared institution, marriage is now reduced to the status of mere platform that provides for exchange of material things.