Indian society polygamy and patriarchal attitudes deeply rooted among the married women in India with an expensive dowry when it might be her husband divorced at any time, so the position of women in India is very low.

Desperate case of drought
Selling women for the debt to sell his wife

India’s population is approaching 1.2 billion, is expected to overtake China in 10 years. And the huge gap between the rich and the poor, many in remote areas, still live in very difficult conditions, many farmers still rely on rely on planting day to eat, in northern India this year coincides with the rare drought called, “dependent on the weather” in India Farmers living difficulties, debt-ridden. In order to maintain the livelihood of thousands of India’s Uttar Pradesh district of the Deerkande wife raise money farmers have to sell. Indian farmers are usually loans to buy seeds, to the autumn harvest season, then earned money to repay. Now the time has come to the repayment of loans, lenders urging a tight grip, he burst into the fields because of drought in total crop failure. Many farmers, their livelihood is threatened, but no money to repay, it is desperate to sell his wife. These farmers usually 4000-1.2 million rupees (100 rupees about 14 yuan) prices will be the wife “or cheap” to the money lender, pretty women, of different prices in different, looks more Jun, the higher the price.

The preference, decreasing the number of women in India, more and more bachelor. Some people blinded by greed, his wife rent a bachelor, and some even went so far to sell his wife to sell women. Buyer and the seller must sign a “marriage contract”, as long as the signature his mark, paid their dues, hand delivery person will trade successfully. The contract states: Once the husband tired of his wife, the wife can be sold to another man. Chairman of India’s National Commission for Women, said women were brought up to believe that India is “a money-losing.” Indian men can not marry 34 wives each, they can be divorced at any time. Law / this sort of thing is always an eye, one eye closed.

One of the victims shed tears to cry: “My husband will be only the price of Rs 8000 I sold to another man. Buyers even called me to court to prove our marriage legal. I go to court way to catch them by surprise escaped. “According to reports, the majority of women who have been trafficked are illiterate, they are they can not understand the” marriage contract “on what has. National Broadcasting Company (NBC) said that India “Agricultural crop heaven”, the peasants very poor ability to withstand natural disasters, droughts and floods often helpless face. As many farmers suffered heavy losses due to agricultural production, inability to repay high debts, not only to sell his wife to sell the phenomenon of women is more common every year is not to repay the loan because of an “influx of farmers committing suicide.” “The Hindu” had a report that in rural India, every 30 minutes a farmers could not bear the weight of life, commit suicide. Government of India, experts said, since 1997, at least 16 million farmers in India committed suicide.

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