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The Silent Suffering of India's Trafficked Brides
February 03, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Lifestyle News
Widowed young, she was brought from her native village to northern India and sold to a man who abused her sexually and physically, and imprisoned her and her daughter in his house.
"It went on for three or four months, until he sold us off to another man," says Mumtaz, Sumari's daughter, who is now about 20.
Sumari is one of the luckier women, having eventually found a good husband after being sold repeatedly in a thriving human trade in northern India that is blamed on local customs and a shortage of women.
More than 10,000 women like her are believed to have been bought or lured with the promise of a job from poorer Indian states in recent years to be married to men who cannot find wives.
"There aren't enough girls here. Locals won't give their girls to widowers, ageing and handicapped men," said Fatima, Sumari's neighbour in Mewat, a district of Haryana state where there are 820 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of six.
This compares to a national average of 927 to 1,000, and the worldwide average of 1,050 girls for every 1,000 boys.
Experts say abortion of female foetuses because of the traditional Hindu preference for sons in this male-dominated society has led to a severe shortage of women in Haryana, and upset the sex balance nationwide.
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