Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!amdcad!gopal From: gopal@amdcad.UUCP (Gopal Srinath) Newsgroups: net.nlang.india Subject: Re: Marriages and Dowry Expires: Refere Message-ID: <4543@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 16:33:02 EDT Article-I.D.: amdcad.4543 Posted: Thu Oct 3 16:33:02 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 05:49:48 EDT References: <5585@fortune.UUCP> <51700004@uiucdcsp> <3039@ut-sally.UUCP> <2430@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Organization: AMDCAD, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 9 Several of my friends have married in the past year and I am yet to hear of one who took dowry. Do the people who have posted responses on teh net on this issue actually know specific cases of dowry taking by educated grooms here? In my experience there are quite a few marriages here and in India without dowry. SO the picture is not as gloomy as it has been made out to be. It would also be good to receive responses from people who have actually been thru the matchmaking system or closely involved with the process for their siblings. They know the REAL situation.