| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2

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Veena Talwar Oldenburg. Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 261. $20.00.

Veena Talwar Oldenburg's interesting 2002 book focuses on the important and horrifying contemporary incidents of dowry murder in India. The title refers to the murder of young Indian brides by in-laws and/or husbands. Such "bride burnings"—so-called because the murders often involve the burning to death of the wife in a kitchen fire—occur either as retribution for having brought an inadequate dowry into the marriage or as a means of enabling a second marriage and the acquisition of a new dowry. First reported in the 1980s in northern India, dowry deaths have since spread more widely through the country. In 2000 a UNICEF research institute reported the number of Indian dowry deaths at 5,000 a year.

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