A movement to stop newly-wed brides from a nomadic tribal community having to take a virginity test has begun in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, and campaigners are determined to put an end to the "humiliating" practice
A conflict is brewing within the Kanjarbhat community, one of the tribes in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, where young members are challenging the centuries-old tradition of “testing” the virginity of brides on their wedding night.
The practice, said to be 400 years old, determines whether the bride is a virgin or not by looking for bloodstains on a white bedsheet that the newly-wed couple is instructed to use for intercourse on their wedding night. If the bride is determined not to be a virgin as a result of this “test”, her family faces being heavily fined or even ostracized from the community.
https://asiatimes.com/2019/03/virginity-test-still-haunts-some-indian-brides/#
Dear Gaurav H Tandon ,
Interesting topic. I think this practice may have been common in many cultures, also in the West, not only India. In my mind, it reflects some of the battles in the evolving change of morals in the battle against modernity and a globalised culture. So the more modern (from example as seen in Hollywood films or even in major cities in India and Bollywood films) clashes with the more local and traditional. The latter side will most probably inevitably lose. What do you think?
However, mind explaining the tags you've put in the description? What is European Continental Ancestry Group? What do you mean by Brewing? And how does this relate to communism?
Best Wishes,
Haris
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