GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Dowry is a payment of cash or gifts from the bride’s family to the bridegroom’s family upon marriage. It may include cash, jewelry, electrical appliances, furniture, bedding, crockery, utensils, car and other household items that help the newlyweds set up their home.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bride price, bride-dowry (Mahr in Islam, Cai Li () in chinese, kanya shulkam in ancient India), bride-wealth, or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry.

Detailed explanation-3: -Who pays the dowry? This varies across different cultures and religions. A Hindu bride’s family typically gives the groom a dowry. In Muslim cultures, however, it is the groom that bequeaths a gift or Mahr to his bride.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most common in cultures that are strongly patrilineal and that expect women to reside with or near their husband’s family (patrilocality), dowries have a long history in Europe, South Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world.