________ Is the Transfer of Cash and Goods from the Bride's

question 15

Short Answer

________ is the transfer of cash and goods from the bride's family to the newly married couple and to the groom's family.In India,beginning in the 1980's there were reports of ________ whereby wives were murdered by husbands,often in collusion with his mother,as the husband's family sought to extract more cash and goods from the wife's family.Such murder has been called ________ or the murder of a person based on their being female.

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Definitions:

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