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Why India stopped mourning its dead daughters: Research reveals hidden structures behind dowry's deadly silence

New research from King's College London published in Public Culture has found that the uneven unfolding of a post-independence law designed to free Indian women from the constraints of Hindu kinship inadvertently created the conditions in which their killings could go publicly unmourned.

Why India stopped mourning its dead daughters: Research reveals hidden structures behind dowry's deadly silence
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New research from King's College London published in Public Culture has found that the uneven unfolding of a post-independence law designed to free Indian women from the constraints of Hindu kinship inadvertently created the conditions in which their killings could go publicly unmourned.

Originally published at Phys.org

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