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1. After his father’s health deteriorated, Faruqui assumed still greater responsibilities—his three sisters had to be married, and weddings meant dowries.
2. I found that these women often give consent to these marriages to escape poverty and the burden of dowry.
3. Assam and West Bengal, meanwhile, are known as “source states” – localities struggling with poverty, the aftermath of natural disasters and the burden of the dowry system.
4. Each successful hit contributes to a virtual “anti dowry fund.”
5. Once the dowry has been cashed, there is no financial reason to keep the wife around.
6. The woman is a commodity to make money—the dowry becomes a business transaction.
7. The full document is quoted in a new book by Avi Raz, The Bride and the Dowry, complete with the typing errors I then made.
8. The groom has to give the bride a dowry to make the contract valid, and that dowry is for her and her alone to use as she wishes.
9. He tried to marry his daughter without a dowry to some man who was intoxicated with nobility.
10. In 1838 he married the daughter of Moreau (de l'Oise), who brought him a very large dowry.
11. Give them a suitable dowry, take care of them, and speak to them always like a friend.
12. This money she used as a dowry and it aided in consummating her marriage with Cerizet.
13. Her family—that of the bourgeoisie of Nancy—fooled Castanier about the size of her dowry and her "expectations."