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Every six hours in India, a young woman is beaten to death, driven to commit suicide or burnt alive in a 'cooking accident' at home. Most of these deaths are the result of arguments over dowry cash...

Every six hours in India, a young woman is beaten to death, driven to commit suicide or burnt alive in a 'cooking accident' at home. Most of these deaths are the result of arguments over dowry cash. It can cost up to $100,000 to find an Indian bride a groom, but that cash incentive has turned India's marriage market into a dangerous arena of lower caste families keen to push their daughters into a better life and rapacious mothers-in-law looking to feather the family nest. Adam Mynott asks: why, in a country hurtling towards economic prosperity, is dowry crime on the rise?

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