Bangalore college gives advantages of Dowry list to students

Dowry has been illegal in India since 1961 but recently a college in Banglore handedover photocopies from a book that lists advantages of Dowry according to its supporters.

Professor Kiran Jeevan, the Public Relations Officer of St. Joseph's College, said an investigation was under way. He said the college was "trying to find the root of the problem."

"Such views have never been part of the college syllabus. In fact the department and the college are opposed to such obscurantist and oppressive patriarchal views as are contained in the page cited," his statement read.

The advantages states that dowry practice, helps ugly girls find a good match, attracting good, handsome, and sometimes unwilling boys for marriage, meritorious boys of poor classes to go for higher education and make their future using dowry money and many more were stated.