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The Dowry

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Author : Frances Walter
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2009-04-03

The Dowry written by Frances Walter and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-03 with Fiction categories.

"A wife brought, sold and married with the stroke of writer's ink. A young woman quietly changes society's rules and thwarts a theft by marriage of her family's estate. Greed turns to murder. All takes a stand to take the Dowry. Who will survive to possess the Dowry?

The Dowry Bride

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Author : Shobhan Bantwal
language : en
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Release Date : 2007-09-01

The Dowry Bride written by Shobhan Bantwal and has been published by Kensington Publishing Corp. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-01 with Fiction categories.

One sultry night, a young bride overhears an extraordinary conversation. The voices speak of a plot to murder a wife who has failed to produce a child and whose family has failed to produce the promised dowry. . . Megha is sick with horror when she realizes she is the intended victim. Her husband--the very man who tied the sacred necklace of marriage around her neck--and his mother are plotting to kill her! In the moment of panic, she runs for her life. Frantically racing through Palgaum's deserted streets, her way lit only by the lights strung up for the Diwali festival, her single goal is to escape death by fire. But fleeing from her would-be killers seems impossible--unless she can find someone to help her. . . To approach her best friend would bring scandal to an innocent woman's doorstep, and turning to her own strict, conservative family is out of the question. Instead, with nothing but the sari she wears and a memory of kindness, Megha finds her way to Kiran, the one man who has shown her friendship and respect. Hiding her in his apartment, Kiran becomes her protector. But the forbidden attraction that grows between them can only bring more danger. . . Caught between tradition and the truths buried in her heart, a dowry bride will discover the real cost of the only things worth having in life. . . "Packed with detail. . .splendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict." --Dorothy Garlock

The Dowry

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Author : Walter Keady
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

The Dowry written by Walter Keady and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Ireland categories.

In 1946 rural Ireland, Brideen Conway lusts after Kieran McDermott but the couple cannot afford to marry. Meanwhile, wealthy publican Austin Glynn is offering a substantial dowry for any suitable mate for his homely daughter, Aideen. The competition is fierce. Father Donovan plots to acquire the dowry to enable Brideen and other young parishioners to marry and have children; Martin McDermott, the local rake, schemes to get his hands on the money without having to marry Aideen; and then there is Alphonsus Finnerty, secret author of romantic novels, who is desperately seeking a wife.

A Dowry Of Blood

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Author : S. T. Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-03-22

A Dowry Of Blood written by S. T. Gibson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-22 with Fiction categories.

THE DARK FANTASY BOOKTOK BLOCKBUSTER! In this dark, fantasy sensation, S. T. Gibson spins the gothic, seductive tale of Dracula's first bride, Constanta. This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. . . Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband's dark secrets. With the lives of everyone she loves on the line, Constanta will have to choose between her own freedom and her love for her husband. But bonds forged by blood can only be broken by death. "A dizzying nightmare of a romance that will leave you aching, angry and ultimately hopeful." --Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf

The Dowry

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Author : Walter Keady
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

The Dowry written by Walter Keady and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Dowry categories.

The Dowry

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Author : Ikbal Singh
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-09-29

The Dowry written by Ikbal Singh and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-29 with categories.

It's 1971 in Delhi, India, and Maya Kahtri is about to enter into the time-honored tradition of arranged marriage-a tradition that holds strong against modern ways. But no sooner than Maya's father provides her agreed upon dowry to her fiancé's family does Maya learn that she has just been traded into a deal deeply imbedded into Indian culture-a deal in which Maya is chattel. Maya embarks on a quest to find the root of the cruel customs that have seeped into the families, relationships, and minds of India's people. Going against her prescribed destiny, Maya faces irate backlash as she is hunted by her enemies. But when Indira Gandhi enacts new emergency measures in a forceful attempt to bring a chaotic country further into modernization, Maya finds an ally in her fight. Can Maya change the course of Indian history despite the traditions that are fused so deeply into its identity? Or will she be drawn into India's ancient spells?

The Dowry

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Author : Lal Keerthie Fernando
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

The Dowry written by Lal Keerthie Fernando and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Dowry categories.

Social systems in the East are under pressure from Western culture and technology. Inevitably, they must rise to the challenge or go under, with all of the upheaval and unrest that that would entail.The author, as a Sri Lankan living in Denmark with intimate experience of Western culture, is naturally concerned about developments in his own country. There the dowry is the lynchpin of the social system. In a fascinating exposition, he delves into its origins, its social purposes and the way in which it works as he searches for answers to the dilemma of inevitably impending change.He captures the flavour of the role of the marriage broker of old, and wryly notes the usurpation of his role by classified advertisements and the Internet. He outlines the significance of the caste system for the old ways and explores the impact of modern thinking on it. Then he boldly attempts a synthesis of the old and the new that will both preserve a heritage that he loves and enable it to weather the storms ahead.

The Bride And The Dowry

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Author : Avi Raz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09-10

The Bride And The Dowry written by Avi Raz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-10 with History categories.

Drawing from newly declassified records in Israeli, American, British and United Nations archives, this penetrating book examines the critical two years following the June 1967 Six Day War, dispelling the myth of overall Arab intransigence and arriving at new and unexpected conclusions

Disappearance Of The Dowry

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Author : Muriel Nazzari
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1991-10-01

Disappearance Of The Dowry written by Muriel Nazzari and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-10-01 with Social Science categories.

Why did a practice that had been considered a duty stop being a duty, or, conversely, why did daughters lose the right they had previously enjoyed of receiving from their parents the wherewithal to contribute to the support of their marriage? Despite the many historical and anthropological studies about dowry, to the best of my knowledge this is the first analysis of its disappearance. My hypothesis at a general level is that the institution of dowry was among the many fetters to the development of capitalism, such as entail, monopolies, and the privileges of the nobility, of churchmen, and of army officers, that disappeared as the influence of industrial capital spread worldwide. Yet entail, monopolies, and privileges were abolished legally, whereas the dowry was not abolished legally, it disappeared in practice. Thus the question remains: what led individual families to change their customs regarding dowry? And they changed remarkably. I found that, in the seventeenth century, practically all propertied families in São Paulo endowed every one of their daughters, favoring them by giving dowries far exceeding the value of what their brothers would inherit later on. By the early nineteenth century, in contrast, long before the custom of dowry had disappeared, less than a third of the propertied families in São Paulo were endowing their daughters, and those who did gave comparatively smaller dowries, with a very different content, while some families endowed only one or two of several daughters. How to explain this transformation in customs? I will argue throughout this book that the practice of dowry altered because of changes in society, the family, and marriage. Since dowry is a transfer of property between family members, changes in the concept of property, in the way property is acquired and held, or in business practices are relevant to an understanding of change in the institution of dowry, as are changes in the function of the family in society, the way it is integrated into production, and how it supports its members. The changes experienced by Brazilian society that help explain the decline and disappearance of the dowry are many of the same transformations that have been observed in more central regions of the Western world. Through a long process that started in the eighteenth century and continued into the early twentieth century, Brazil changed from a hierarchical, ancien régime type of society in which status, family, and patron-client relations were primary to a more individualistic society in which contract and the market increasingly reigned. A society divided vertically into family clans changed gradually into a society divided horizontally into classes. As the state grew stronger, it took over functions previously performed by the family, which in seventeenth-century São Paulo's frontier society had included municipal government and defense. Between the seventeenth and the late nineteenth centuries, a new concept of private property developed. The family changed from being the locus of both production and consumption to being principally the locus of consumption, while "family" and "business" became formally separate. The power of the larger kin declined and the conjugal family became more important, and marriage was transformed from predominantly a property matter to an avowed "love" relationship, the economic underpinnings of which were no longer made explicit. At the same time there was a change from the strong authority of the patriarch over adult sons and daughters to their greater independence, and from arranged marriages to marriages freely chosen by the bride and groom. These transformations took place in Brazil starting in the eighteenth century and continuing throughout the nineteenth century in a gradual and complex manner so that both old and new characteristics often coexisted at a given time, sometimes even within the same family. As these changes occurred, the

South Asians And The Dowry Problem

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Author : Werner Menski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

South Asians And The Dowry Problem written by Werner Menski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Dowry categories.

Collection of the main papers from three International Conferences on Dowry and Bride-Burning; the 1st and 2nd conferences were held at Harvard University in 1995 and 1996 and the 3rd at London University in 1997.

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