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Taking dowry as a crucial index for women's status, this locates it within a broad historical framework and a feminist perspective viewing it not as a static custom but as a product of changing political, economic, and social processes to comprehend its present shape as well as its various dimensions. Asks how integral was dowry to ancient marriage forms? How far was it legitimized by tradition? What were its linkages with property and inheritance structures? And, how did it become so pervasive over time? \n
Dr Ranjana Sheel is with the Centre for Women's Studies, Banaras Hindu University since 1988. She has completed projects on Girl Child and the Family, and the Mahila Gram Pradhans. Her current research interest pertains to reconstruction of images of women in Colonial and Post-Colonial India.
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