Subject(s): Dowry -- Women -- Harassment -- Dowry boycott, dowry calculations- daughter's rights in her parental family, knocking at portals of justice- struggle for women's land rights, burning of Roop Kanwar- sati system, co-ownership of wives, se determination test in India, code for self monitoring, violence and 1989 election- implications for women, out of the Zenana Dabba - strategies for enhancing women's political representation, women's marginal role in politics, sex harassment and slander as weapons of Subjugation, when India missed the universe, love and marriage, women, sex and marriage- restraint as feminine strategy, continuing popularity of Sita in India, living identities v/s acquired ones, feminist -- women & law