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Dowries have been outlawed in India since 1961, but the bride's family is still expected to gift cash, clothes and jewellery to the groom's family.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2024

Dowries - both giving and accepting - have been illegal in India since 1961, but 90% of Indian marriages still involve them, according to a recent study.

From BBC • May 12, 2024

Dowries have been illegal in India since 1961, but the bride's family is still expected to gift cash, clothes and jewellery to the groom's family.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2023

Dowries aren't important in this day and age.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2013

Dowries had been swallowed up in the soil, and the Gracchan law was confiscating personal as well as real property, taking the wife's fortune as well as the husband's.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)