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Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime, The Hindu custom of dowry has long been blamed for the murder of wives and female infants in India. In this highly provocative book, Veena Oldenburg argues that these killings are neither about dowry nor reflective of an Indian culture or caste system tha, Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime
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  • Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime
  • Written by author Veena Talwar Oldenburg
  • Published by Oxford University Press Inc, 2002/07/01
  • The Hindu custom of dowry has long been blamed for the murder of wives and female infants in India. In this highly provocative book, Veena Oldenburg argues that these killings are neither about dowry nor reflective of an Indian culture or caste system tha
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Introduction 3
Ch. 1 Conundrums and Contexts 19
Ch. 2 The Just-So Stories about Female Infanticide 41
Ch. 3 The Tangled Tale of Twisting a Safety Net into a Noose 73
Ch. 4 Engineering a Masculine World 99
Ch. 5 Local Customs and the Economy Grow Mustaches 131
Ch. 6 Writing Lives, Underwriting Silences: Understanding Dowry Death in Contemporary India 175
Epilogue 227
Notes 229
References 245
Index 257


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