Hindu vs. Muslim Honor Killings Middle East Quarterly. Although the overwhelming majority of honor killings worldwide occur within Muslim communities,1 one would not know this by reading the mainstream media. Fearful of being labeled Islamophobic, the American press has given only glancing attention to the widespread, honor related ritual murder of Muslim women in the Middle East and South Asia while treating periodic honor killings among Muslim immigrants in the West as ordinary domestic abuse cases. Not even celebrity status can shield Muslim women from punishments related to honor crimes. Actress Afshan Azad left, seen here with Harry Potter co star Rupert Grint, was beaten and threatened with death in 2. Muslim. Over the last few years, however, the media has published a flurry of articles about Hindu honor killings in India, the only non Muslim majority country where these murders are still rampant. Apologists for Muslim culture and civilization rushed to herald the upsurge in Hindu and Sikh honor killings as evidence that the practice is a universal problem, not an Islamic issue. While India is indeed a striking exception to Islams near monopoly on contemporary honor killings, the following preliminary statistical survey shows Hindu honor killings in India to be different in form and commission from those of Muslims in neighboring Pakistan. Though no less gruesome, the Hindu honor killings seem largely confined to the north of India and are perpetuated by sociocultural factors largely specific to India. The millions of Indian Hindus who have immigrated to the West do not bring the practice along with them. The recent spike of honor killings in India is likely the product of a clash between traditional and modern values, intensified by high economic growth and increasing social mobility. The Hindu Marriage Act Of 1955 Pdf' title='The Hindu Marriage Act Of 1955 Pdf' />1 CRUELTY AS A GROUND FOR DIVORCE OR FOR JUDICIAL SEPARATION UNDER THE HINDU MARRIAGE ACT, 1955 Justice A. K. Srivastava, Judge, Delhi High Court. The Hindu Marriage Act by an Act of the Parliament of India enacted in 1955. Three other important acts were also enacted as part of the Hindu Code Bills during this. The spike may also reflect growing media coverage of this crime. The democratically elected government of India has taken important, if long overdue, steps to combat the practice of honor killing, and some progress has been made. Not so in Pakistan where officials at all levels of government are either unable or unwilling to cope with honor killings. For Pakistan and many other Muslim countries, which have yet to experience the social stresses of rapid modernization or build the kind of political institutions that can eradicate a practice so deeply rooted in traditional beliefsespecially as Islamists now dominatethe worst may be yet to come. The Social Milieu. Honor killing is the premeditated murder of a relative usually a young woman who has allegedly impugned the honor of her family. It tends to predominate in societies where individual rights are circumscribed by communal solidarities, patriarchal authority structures, and intolerant religious and tribal beliefs. Under such conditions, control over marriage and reproduction is critical to the socioeconomic status of kinship groups and the regulation of female behavior is integral to perceptions of honor, known as maryada in many Indian languages and as ghairat in Urdu and Pashto. In such an environment, a woman who refuses to enter into an arranged marriage, seeks a divorce, or fails to avoid suspicion of immoral behavior will be viewed by her family as having dishonored them so grievously that her male relatives will be ostracized and her siblings will have trouble finding suitable spouses. Killing her is the only way the family can restore its honor, regardless of whether she actually is or can be proven guilty of the alleged offense. In sharp contrast to other forms of domestic violence, honor killings are frequently performed out in the open, and the perpetrators rarely act alone. THE MARRIAGE LAWS AMENDMENT BILL, 2010 A BILL further to amend the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and the Special Marriage Act, 1954. BE it enacted by Parliament in the. The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to amend and codify the law relating to intestate or unwilled succession, among Hindus. The Law Commission of India as well as judiciary demands the inclusion of irretrievable break down as marriage as a special ground for divorce under Hindu Marriage. THE HINDU MARRIAGE ACT, 1955 Act 25 of 195518th May, 1955 An Act to amend and codify the law relating to marriage among Hindus. Preliminary 1. Salient features of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 has reformed Hindu law of Marriage. It is a landmark in the history of social legislation. Unni Wikan, a social anthropologist and professor at the University of Oslo, observed that an honor killer typically commits the murder as a commission from the extended family. File Iso Game Ps3 there. The lead author of this article documented this in 2. West and in Muslim majority countries. Though neither Islam nor Hinduism directly sanctions honor killing, both play a role in legitimizing the practice in South Asiaif for no other reason than that such societies have not prosecuted this crime, have issued light sentences, or have failed to use their religious authority to punish and abolish it. The Hindu Marriage Act Of 1955 Pdf' title='The Hindu Marriage Act Of 1955 Pdf' />Hindu society is divided into religiously mandated castes, membership in which is hereditary and effectively permanent. At the lowest rung of the ladder are roughly 1. Over the last few years, however, the media has published a flurry of articles about Hindu honor killings in India, the only nonMuslimmajority country where these. Marriage Registration Online all across India. Get Marriage Certificate Online here. Court Marriage Hindus, Jain, Parsi, Muslim, Christian, Sikh Marriage. The problem and status of women in Hinduism and how they are treated in modern Hindu society. Indians who are called Dalits the oppressed, commonly known in the West as untouchables. Although many Dalits have reached high political office, notably former president K. R. Narayanan,7 they are still held in low regard by many other Indians. According to Hindu religious law and tradition, marrying or having sexual relations with a member of a different caste is strictly forbidden. So, too, is romantic involvement with someone from the same sub caste gotra,9 a proscription that contrasts notably with Muslim cultures where first cousin marriage is widely accepted. The vast majority of Hindu honor killings target young Indians suspected of violating one of these two commandments. In northern India, the murders are often explicitly sanctioned or even mandated by caste based councils known as khap panchayats. Although the Hindu Marriage Act of 1. Indian Hindus. According to a 2. Indian public oppose inter caste marriage. In some areas of the country, any marriage not arranged by the family is widely regarded as taboo. Love marriages are dirty only whores can choose their partners, one council leader told an Indian reporter. Although Islam does not specifically endorse killing female family members, some honor killings involve allegations of adultery or apostasy, which are punishable by death under Sharia Islamic law. Thus, the belief that women who stray from the path can be rightly murdered is consistent with such Islamic teachings. The refusal of most Islamic authorities to unambiguously denounce the practice as opposed to merely denying that Islam sanctions it only encourages would be honor killers. While the Quran preaches the equality of all Muslims or at least all Muslim males, and Islamic leaders frequently bemoan the evils of Indias caste system, vestiges of caste identification are evident among some Pakistani Muslims, who are descended from Hindus who were forcibly converted to Islam in the Middle Ages and were part of India before 1. Empirical Trends. It is difficult to accurately estimate the number of honor killings that take place in Pakistan and India as the vast majority are believed to go unreported. In 2. 01. 0, there were roughly 9. Indian states of Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh alone while 1. Also in 2. 01. 0, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 8. Pakistan. 1. 5 Both figures likely represent only the tip of the iceberg. According to the Aurat Foundation, a Pakistani human rights organization At least 6. Pakistani women and girls were murdered during the first nine months of the calendar year 2. Almost 7. 7 percent of such honor cases ended in acquittals. A similar study, published in 2. Research and Development for Human Resources Women Rights Cell, found that 6. Sindh were honor murdered or murdered in domestic disputes that same year. In order to compare and contrast honor killings in India and Pakistan, a sample was taken of 7. Hindu honor killings in India, including 5. The Indian cases were compared to 5.