The document presents a project on the dowry system in India. It discusses how dowry started during British rule when women were prohibited from owning property, how it has since become a social evil leading to marriage breakups and deaths, and its prevalence today in states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The impacts of dowry include gender imbalance, domestic violence, and loss of self-esteem for women. Solutions proposed include education, gender equality initiatives, and social awareness campaigns. A survey found that most women see dowry as an evil but some feel it is still acceptable.

1. FR. CONCEICAO RODRIGUES COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION AND ETHICS
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING
A PROJECT PRESENTATION ON:-
DOWRY SYSTEM

2. DOWRY SYSTEM
TEAM 8 SUPERVISED BY: DR. JOSEPH RODRIGUES
9279 Mehul Patel DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES AND SCIENCE
9280 Devraj Patil
9281 Resham Patil
9282 Riya Patil(TL)
9283 Nayan Pawar
9284 Aaron Peraira

3. INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS DOWRY SYSTEM :-
● The Dowry system in India refers to the durable goods, cash, and real or movable property
that the bride's family gives to the groom, his parents and his relatives as a condition of the
marriage.
● The Dowry system has been followed in India since a very long time. Our ancestors started
this system for valid yet questionable reasons but now it is leading to issues and problems
in society.
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4. INTRODUCTION
● The dowry system has become a social evil in India because of the marriage break up and
deaths due to dowry.
● There are several incidents have taken placed on the land of the India ,where a bride had
burnt because of the dowry in addition to this a lot of marriages come to an end by just
more demand of the dowry by the groom family.
● There was a time, when dowry had been given by the bride’s father as per his will and
capacity but slowly it became a social evil as the groom's family had put the demand for
the dowry.

5. HISTORY OF DOWRY SYSTEM
HOW DID THIS PRACTICE ACTUALLY START:
● It all started with he rule imposed by the British which prohibited the women from owning
any property at all affected the status of the women in Indian society,and this was what
created the menace of the dowry system in India.
● During British rule women were prohibited from having any property rights, it meant that
all the wealth that a woman got from her parents would be owned by her husband instead.
● Slowly this system of husband owning the wealth of his wife was created, the traditional
dowry system got converted into a menace creating an institution of greed.

6. HISTORY OF DOWRY SYSTEM
● The greed that kicked in created a system where husband and his family started looking at
the incoming bride as a source of property and wealth.
● The social harmony and the bonding created by the institution of marriage was gone.
Marriage became just another business deal, where making wealth was easier.

7. DOWRY SYSTEM IN MODERN INDIA
● In India the tradition of Dowry has continued for numerous decades.
● In states of Bihar, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh there are high rates
of dowry-related deaths.
● In Punjab, where sex ratio is very low the demand for dowry money is growing.
● Also in state of kerala dowry is widely practiced.

8. CAUSES OF DOWRY SYSTEM
● Economic factors
● Social factors
● Religious factors
● Illiteracy
● Low position of women
● Lack of Willingness to adhere to laws

9. IMPACT OF DOWRY SYSTEM
● Initiates gender imbalance
● Affecting Career of Women
● Many Women End Up Being Unmarried
● Promotes domestic violence and crime
● Deteriorating financial status of the bride's family
● Loss of self-esteem among the women
● Decrements status of women

10. TYPES OF DOWRY CRIMES
● Cruelty
● Domestic violence
● Abetment to suicide
● Dowry Murder

11. DOWRY ACTS
● The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961
● Indian Penal Code, 1860
● Indian Evidence Act, 1872
● Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
● International convention

12. SURVEY

13. SURVEY

14. SURVEY

15. SOLUTIONS
The solution/preventive measures aimed at curbing the dowry system are:-
● Education
● Making women self-dependent
● Gender Equality
● Initiating Mass Media Campaigning
● Government Initiatives
● Social Awareness Campaigns

16. CONCLUSION
● We can conclude that the practice of dowry is not only illegal but also unethical.
● Therefore, the conscience of society needs to be fully awakened to the evils of the dowry
system so that the demand for dowry itself should lead to ‘loss of face’ in society for those
who demand it.
● Also we can conclude that the majority of the women agreed that dowry is an evil but
some of them considered that dowey was not a big fault in our society.

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