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Wife Burning in India - Why Does it Happen?
By Shipra Garg
Wife burning is a heinous crime in India.
Women are liberated now, but still they are not free from the fire of atrocities. Either its dowry or a Sati ritual, people can manifest women drowned in fire. Women are always exploited and underestimated since past many years. The two common practice of burning wife are:
With so much pomp & show and fun & frolic, the groom's parent welcomes the bride in their house. The girl leaves her parents house with tears in her eyes and a trust in her heart for her life partner. The Indian girl not only gets married to a boy but she considers the groom's family as her. But what a plight of this young bride, who is surrounded by the unfamiliar people who has an eagle's eye on her trousseau. For them she is a blank check, a hen who'll deliver a gold egg for them daily.
Harassment starts after few days. Her dedicated duties resulted as a Sisyphean. Sarcastic remarks, rude behavior and castigating her now and then. Finally, that horrifying day arrives when the poor girl who was going through this intense terror at every moment is either maimed or killed. She is drained with gasoline or any such inflammable material and burnt to ashes. But a saga is, the social stigma in India against those parents who support their daughter or file a case against her in-laws or/and husband. Some parents too leave their daughter on her fate at her in-laws place and with cruel husband. She is expected to lead her life there till death. Nobody pay heed to that palpable dead look of this bride.
If, by god's grace women is saved from burning for dowry is a custom in which widow is forced to sacrifice her life at her husband's funeral pyres. Though the research proves that the ritual was voluntary, where the woman decides whether to end her life with her husband after his death or live a life. But in some villages of north-India and by some insane, lumpish and orthodox people the widows were forced to immolate. The ritual of Sati is much prevalent in the villages of Rajasthan in north-India and also in some castes of Bengal in east-India. In some communities, where the ruler had more than one wife, only the preferred wife was immolated with her husband.
This custom was tried to ban by some Mughal rulers and through the dedicated fight by Raja Ram Mohan Roy. British outlawed this custom in 1829.
Let it be Dowry or Sati, the women are burning like a ball of fire due to the reasons that they are considered a symbol of pity. Some parents even get into chagrin with the birth of a girl child. Sons are more pampered than the daughters and husbands are literally the god for their wives.
If not exactly burning for dowry or as sati, but women in India were and will suffer harassment either physically, emotionally or mentally, until or unless her parent feel proud to be the father and mother of a daughter.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Shipra_Garg
By Shipra Garg
Wife burning is a heinous crime in India.
Women are liberated now, but still they are not free from the fire of atrocities. Either its dowry or a Sati ritual, people can manifest women drowned in fire. Women are always exploited and underestimated since past many years. The two common practice of burning wife are:
With so much pomp & show and fun & frolic, the groom's parent welcomes the bride in their house. The girl leaves her parents house with tears in her eyes and a trust in her heart for her life partner. The Indian girl not only gets married to a boy but she considers the groom's family as her. But what a plight of this young bride, who is surrounded by the unfamiliar people who has an eagle's eye on her trousseau. For them she is a blank check, a hen who'll deliver a gold egg for them daily.
Harassment starts after few days. Her dedicated duties resulted as a Sisyphean. Sarcastic remarks, rude behavior and castigating her now and then. Finally, that horrifying day arrives when the poor girl who was going through this intense terror at every moment is either maimed or killed. She is drained with gasoline or any such inflammable material and burnt to ashes. But a saga is, the social stigma in India against those parents who support their daughter or file a case against her in-laws or/and husband. Some parents too leave their daughter on her fate at her in-laws place and with cruel husband. She is expected to lead her life there till death. Nobody pay heed to that palpable dead look of this bride.
If, by god's grace women is saved from burning for dowry is a custom in which widow is forced to sacrifice her life at her husband's funeral pyres. Though the research proves that the ritual was voluntary, where the woman decides whether to end her life with her husband after his death or live a life. But in some villages of north-India and by some insane, lumpish and orthodox people the widows were forced to immolate. The ritual of Sati is much prevalent in the villages of Rajasthan in north-India and also in some castes of Bengal in east-India. In some communities, where the ruler had more than one wife, only the preferred wife was immolated with her husband.
This custom was tried to ban by some Mughal rulers and through the dedicated fight by Raja Ram Mohan Roy. British outlawed this custom in 1829.
Let it be Dowry or Sati, the women are burning like a ball of fire due to the reasons that they are considered a symbol of pity. Some parents even get into chagrin with the birth of a girl child. Sons are more pampered than the daughters and husbands are literally the god for their wives.
If not exactly burning for dowry or as sati, but women in India were and will suffer harassment either physically, emotionally or mentally, until or unless her parent feel proud to be the father and mother of a daughter.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Shipra_Garg
