"wife-sharing" Haunts North Indian Villages

[Jambhalheart]

BAGHPAT, India (TrustLaw) - When Munni arrived in this fertile, sugarcane-growing region of north India as a young bride years ago, little did she imagine she would be forced into having sex and bearing children with her husband's two brothers who had failed to find wives.

"My husband and his parents said I had to share myself with his brothers," said the woman in her mid-40s, dressed in a yellow sari, sitting in a village community centre in Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh.

"They took me whenever they wanted -- day or night. When I resisted, they beat me with anything at hand," said Munni, who had managed to leave her home after three months only on the pretext of visiting a doctor.

"Sometimes they threw me out and made me sleep outside or they poured kerosene over me and burned me."

Such cases are rarely reported to police because women in these communities are seldom allowed outside the home unaccompanied, and the crimes carry deep stigma for the victims. So there may be many more women like Munni in the mud-hut villages of the area.
Munni, who has three sons from her husband and his brothers, has not filed a police complaint either.

Social workers say decades of aborting female babies in a deeply patriarchal culture has led to a decline in the population of women in some parts of India, like Baghpat, and in turn has resulted in rising incidents of rape, human trafficking and the emergence of "wife-sharing" amongst brothers.

Aid workers say the practice of female foeticide has flourished among several communities across the country because of a traditional preference for sons, who are seen as old-age security.

"We are already seeing the terrible impacts of falling numbers of females in some communities," says Bhagyashri Dengle, executive director of children's charity Plan India.

"We have to take this as a warning sign and we have to do something about it or we'll have a situation where women will constantly be at risk of kidnap, rape and much, much worse."

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[CORLEONE]

yeah, this concept of wife-sharing is common in rural areas of some parts of UP, Bihar !

[k2s]

[quote name='Maddy_Rulez' timestamp='1319825607' post='3042971']
BAGHPAT, India (TrustLaw) - When Munni arrived in this fertile, sugarcane-growing region of north India as a young bride years ago, little did she imagine she would be forced into having sex and bearing children with her husband's two brothers who had failed to find wives.

"My husband and his parents said I had to share myself with his brothers," said the woman in her mid-40s, dressed in a yellow sari, sitting in a village community centre in Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh.

"They took me whenever they wanted -- day or night. When I resisted, they beat me with anything at hand," said Munni, who had managed to leave her home after three months only on the pretext of visiting a doctor.

"Sometimes they threw me out and made me sleep outside or they poured kerosene over me and burned me."

Such cases are rarely reported to police because women in these communities are seldom allowed outside the home unaccompanied, and the crimes carry deep stigma for the victims. So there may be many more women like Munni in the mud-hut villages of the area.
Munni, who has three sons from her husband and his brothers, has not filed a police complaint either.

Social workers say decades of aborting female babies in a deeply patriarchal culture has led to a decline in the population of women in some parts of India, like Baghpat, and in turn has resulted in rising incidents of rape, human trafficking and the emergence of "wife-sharing" amongst brothers.

Aid workers say the practice of female foeticide has flourished among several communities across the country because of a traditional preference for sons, who are seen as old-age security.

"We are already seeing the terrible impacts of falling numbers of females in some communities," says Bhagyashri Dengle, executive director of children's charity Plan India.

"We have to take this as a warning sign and we have to do something about it or we'll have a situation where women will constantly be at risk of kidnap, rape and much, much worse."
[/quote]okkokadini,,,,,,,,, [img]http://i52.tinypic.com/bg2u74.gif[/img]

[Gachibowli_Diwakar]

Wife-sharing endhi ra ayya .. veellu veella pundakoor veeshaalu

[Aavakaaya Biryaani]

k kosi kaaram pettali lafoota gaallani....

[Anta Assamey]

[dreamgirl]

dg..

[NaniMAN]

[ManOnFire]

[POOLA RANGADU]

[quote name='k2s' timestamp='1319834355' post='3043658']
okkokadini,,,,,,,,, [img]http://i52.tinypic.com/bg2u74.gif[/img]
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[quote name='Silence..Please' timestamp='1319834956' post='3043700']
Wife-sharing endhi ra ayya .. veellu veella pundakoor veeshaalu
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[quote name='Aavakaaya Biryaani' timestamp='1319837202' post='3043846']
k kosi kaaram pettali lafoota gaallani....
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mari...idee reaction...PAANDAVULA meeda kuda choopistaara? dharma raju, bheemudu,arjunudu..nakula sahadevulu....5 draupadi ni panchukunnaru gaa mari...vallani aadarsa purushulu gaa...elaa chitreekarinchi...oppukogalugutunnaaru?

not that i am supporting wife sharing...but i understand y it happened...alaa..rough ga handle cheyyakundaa..smooth gaa share chesukunte ok naa?

[Jambhalheart]

[quote name='POOLA RANGADU' timestamp='1319867062' post='3044904']


mari...idee reaction...PAANDAVULA meeda kuda choopistaara? dharma raju, bheemudu,arjunudu..nakula sahadevulu....5 draupadi ni panchukunnaru gaa mari...vallani aadarsa purushulu gaa...elaa chitreekarinchi...oppukogalugutunnaaru?

not that i am supporting wife sharing...but i understand y it happened...alaa..rough ga handle cheyyakundaa..smooth gaa share chesukunte ok naa?
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thats true, naaku punjabi friend vundevaadu, vaadi oori lo kooda wife sharing between brothers is common anta.

woman having more than one husband evi, common konni north areas lo

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[quote name='Maddy_Rulez' timestamp='1319867476' post='3044916']



thats true, naaku punjabi friend vundevaadu, vaadi oori lo kooda wife sharing between brothers is common anta.

woman having more than one husband evi, common konni north areas lo
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yaa,,,,,,,, that is more common in Haryana may be bcoz of low female to male ratio wher ther are lot of villages with no or very few females !