A picture of a textbook has been doing the rounds of Facebook which accuses Bengaluru's St Joseph's College, Shanti Nagar, of teaching its students the 'advantages of dowry’.
According to a India Today report, the study material which was been given to the bachelors students of a Bengaluru college endorses the system of dowry and clearly says that the dowry system has helped the ‘ugly’ looking girls to get married.
"The marriage of ugly girls who would otherwise have gone without a partner is made possible by offering heavy amount of dowry," the study material reportedly given to students states.
The college however initially refuted that such study material was given out. Later, in a statement released to the media, they said, "The matter is being investigated and we are trying to find the root of the problem. Such views have never been part of the college syllabus. Infact the department and the college are opposed to such obscurantist and oppressive patriarchal views as are contained in the page cited,” India Today reported quoting an official.
Earlier this year, the Maharashtra government ordered a probe when it emerged that a Class XII sociology textbook read by public school students contained the following lines:
"If a girl is ugly and handicapped, then it becomes very difficult for her to get married. To marry such girls, the bridegroom and his family demand more dowry. Parents of such girls become helpless and pay dowry as per the demands of the bridegroom as family."
