Bengaluru college caught teaching ’benefits’ of Dowry

Mangalore Today News Network

Bengaluru, Oct 20, 2017 : Dowry is considered a heinous criminal act by the Supreme Court of India and the Government and is liable for penal punishments with fines and statutory imprisonment.

 

However, in some places, the age-old ’tradition’ of a bride’s father showering the groom’s family with gifts of money, precious metals and even property continues.

Now, one college in Bengaluru, St. Joseph’s College in Shanti Nagar, to be precise, has been caught teaching the ’benefits’ of dowry in its material.

In a Facebook post, one Rithika Ramesh shared a page of a B.A. Student’s Sociology textbook, which shows not one, but at least 7 advantages to the dowry system.

Some of those benefits as being taught by that textbook are as follows:

1. Makes possible the marriage of ugly girls, who would otherwise not get any groom.

2. It’s a good bait for getting attractive, handsome and sometimes unwilling men to get married.

3. It may help get a footing for self-employment and can be a fresh start for the couple.

4. Dowry helps poor but meritorious boys to pursue further education.

5. It somehow increases the love and affection presented to the bride from her in-laws and husband than if she had no dowry to give, making rich girls even better off than poor girls.

6. Paying dowry helps girls climb the social ladder and move to upper circles of society by getting high-value grooms.

7. It helps maintain harmony in the family. Any Property, however, should not be given in dowry.


This is not the first time an educational institution has been caught normalising dowry. In February this year, reports of a Maharashtra school teaching the ’reasons’ behind dowry came to light.

In light of this, the ’advantages’, as being taught to impressionable young minds preparing to take their first plunge into the world outside their homes and classrooms, is capable of setting a dangerous precedent that threatens to delay, if not end, the fight against dowry.



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