Posted on 04/15/2006 7:36:09 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Lack of women turns tables on Rajasthan's suitable boys
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Long, twirling moustaches and bejewelled daggers are no longer enough for a man seeking to marry in India's desert state of Rajasthan, long considered a land of fearless warriors.
But if he is lucky enough to have a sister, he can relax, a newspaper report said on Sunday.
A declining sex ratio in the state is prompting a girl's parents to spurn offers of marriage from men unless the potential groom's family also has a marriageable daughter for their son, the Sunday Express said.
"Around 30 percent of the marriages in the past year in Shekhawati region of Rajasthan were fixed on this swap system," local lawmaker Rajendra Chauhan said.
The sex ratio in many of Rajasthan's districts has dropped to 922 girls for every 1,000 boys, according to the last census. In one or two villages, it has plummeted to less than 500, the paper reported.
The joint engagement pact, called "aata-saata", or the "double-couple plan", has emerged as young women find themselves much in demand in a state where the traditional preference, as in much of India, has been for sons.
Heavily skewed sex ratios have emerged in several parts of India as couples use ultra-sound technology to achieve their desire for a baby son despite such tests being illegal.
A joint study carried out by researchers in India and Canada recently suggested that half-a-million unborn girls may be aborted in India every year.
But now the absence of girls is changing village dynamics, the newspaper said.
"There are no girls. If there is one in a house, the father is like a king. He can demand anything," said Prahland Singh, the head of Bhorki village in Rajasthan.
He said that around 30 families had carried out marriages under the swap system in the village of 3,000 people in the last two years.
The report said that dowry, where traditionally a bride's father had to bestow riches on a groom to secure a marriage, has completely disappeared from many parts of the state.
Rather the groom's families are now offering to bear the cost of finding a suitable bride for their sons.
Ping!
Long, twirling moustaches and bejewelled daggers and 54 IQ! Be still my heart!
I always thought that cultures that favored having male children over female children would one day face a woman-shortage crisis.
Now I know where to sentance our fondling Amercian school teachers
I have a good idea, let's send all the radical- feminists from our schools over-there
No, send them to Saudi Arabia as third or fourth wives of old Muslim Jihadist clerics. Their ugly mug could be turn-off even for really horny Rajasthani boys.
Well, hopefully this problem will be faced by the islamo-fascists.
Tks for the ping.
Seems as if demand and supply economics is catching up with Rural India's sociological patterns ...
"Well, hopefully this problem will be faced by the islamo-fascists."
Sadly, thats rather unlikely. The islamofascistas treat their women like cattle pens - breeding factories and little else. They've no known pattern of female foetus abortions I know of.
Notice how the market corrects the situation:
"But now the absence of girls is changing village dynamics, the newspaper said...
...The report said that dowry, where traditionally a bride's father had to bestow riches on a groom to secure a marriage, has completely disappeared from many parts of the state.
Rather the groom's families are now offering to bear the cost of finding a suitable bride for their sons."
Anyone care to guess how long it will be before the practice of aborting baby girls loses popularity?
We can encourage Muslim women to eat pork, except a small number of them. Then, the competition among Jihadis for pork-free Muslim bride would be intense. They may kill off one another.:)
I thought I read awhile back that the this was being done in American cities in Caifornia. Oh well, wouldn't be the first tme I remembered incorrectly.
Yep, China will be next with this phenomenon. They're still selling their unwanted daughters to American couples and killing girl babies, but it won't be long before a Chinese woman is considered very much in demand no matter how ill-favored she is. Heh heh heh.
Someome needs to tell these backward folks how babies are made....Man, Woman...Duuhhh.
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