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Gender, Caste and Matchmaking in Kerala: A Rationale for Dowry
The matrilineal castes of northern Kerala consider dowry demeaning and resort to it only in `exceptional' circumstances. In local discourse, dowry is transacted when women are considered `old' by the standards of the marriage market, where over-age is a condition reached usually on account...
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Development and Change 39(2): 263-283 (2008).
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/003312.pdf |