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As opposed to a dowry, a bride price is an amount of money or property paid to the parents of a woman for the right to marry her. The Hebrew Bible and Talmud mention the practice of paying a bride price to the father of a minor girl.

The practice of bride price also existed in India, where it was considered as a social evil and the subject of a movement to eradicate it in the early 20th Century.

A famous Telugu play "Kanyasulkam" (Bride Price)satirised the practice and the brahminical notions that kept it alive. Though the practice no longer exists in India, the play, and the movie based on it, are still extremely popular in Andhra Pradesh.

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