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Traditionalist dowry is an
ancient custom that is
mentioned in some of the
earliest writings, and its
existence may well
predate records of it.
Dowries continue...
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Indian laws
against dowries have been in
effect for decades, they have been
largely criticised as
being ineffective. The
practice of
dowry deaths and murders...
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texts indicating that bridewealth—not
dowry—was
often paid, even in
brahma and
daiva types of marriages.
Dowries were more
common only in
cases where the...
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Dowry of Mary (or
Dowry of the Virgin, Our Lady's
Dowry, and
similar variations) is a
title used in
Catholic contexts to
refer to England. It
dates back...
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Dowry Kalyanam (transl.
Dowry Marriage) is a 1983
Indian Tamil-language
comedy drama film,
directed by Visu and
produced by S. Suseela. The film stars...
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never paying off) the husband's
permanent debt to the wife's parents.
Dowries exist in
societies where capital is more
valuable than
manual labor. For...
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decision theory. It is also
known as the
marriage problem, the sultan's
dowry problem, the
fussy suitor problem, the
googol game, and the best choice...
- The
Oxcart for
Dowry (Chinese: 嫁妝一牛車) is a
collection of
short stories written by
Taiwanese author Wang Chen-ho (王禎和). It was
published in May 1969 by...
- The
Fatal Dowry is a late
Jacobean era
stage play, a
tragedy written by
Philip M****inger and
Nathan Field, and
first published in 1632. It represents...
- Empire, and
subsequently to the East
India Company in 1661, as part of the
dowry of
Catherine of
Braganza in her
marriage to
Charles II of England. Beginning...
