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Explain the thematic linkages between ‘Patriarchy’ and ‘Honour killing’ in India. Citing some recent cases.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 20 marks
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

An honour killing is the killing of a woman, and often her chosen partner, by her own kin for a union the group reads as defiling. The linkage with patriarchy is not simply that men are violent: in India patriarchy is organised through caste, and a daughter's sexuality marks the caste boundary. Four themes carry…

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  • 1. Control over women's sexuality and reproductive capacity
  • 2. Endogamy makes that control a caste matter
  • 3. Honour is collective, not individual, property
  • 4. Khap and caste panchayats as parallel normative authority
  • Recent cases
  • Law and the counting problem
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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