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Broken mirrors : the "dowry problem" in India /

In fairytales, good triumphs over evil and mirrors don't lie. Reality, however, presents a different picture as fairytale marriages fall apart and end in a ghastly nightmare: battered brides, unnatural deaths and the ubiquitous 'dowry'. Why does the spectre of 'dowry death'...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Wyatt, Robin
مؤلفون آخرون: Masood, Nazia
التنسيق: Printed Book
اللغة:English
منشور في: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2010.
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