The Law Arrives Too Late: How The Culture Of “Adjustment” Normalises Matrimonial Abuse Before Dowry Deaths

Samikshaa, BBA LLB (Hons), Presidency University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ABSTRACT Dowry deaths are often treated as sudden tragedies, but they rarely begin with a woman's death. They begin much earlier in the silences she is taught to maintain, the suffering she is expected to tolerate, and the warnings that are repeatedly dismissed as ordinary marital problems. Behind every dowry death is a woman who was told to adjust a little more, endure a little longer, and place the survival of her...