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in parts of India where the status of women is less important than . All these do indicate how the positions of women has brought down in the Indian society. This necessarily shapes a different bent of mind and attitudes of people in the contemporary Indian society in general and urban society in particular.
Some people says in modern time in India is not a chance event but a product of emergence and development of social forces over a period of time. Going back to past traditions marriage, to an Indian is one of the twelve sacraments enjoyed upon religion for purifying the body from inherited taints. So it is a religious necessity than a major physical luxury.
today is being demanded and paid without any relation to the bride’s father income and wealth. With the increase desire for quick money and the luxuries of life these demands are not confine to the rich and the middle class alone, but also for the lower class. Failure to meet these demands results in ill treatment ...

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