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July 1986 Issue
July 1986 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Pasta
    Corby Kummer
  • The Spend-Up
    James Fallows
  • Conservation: Vanishing Land Reappears
    Gregg Easterbrook
  • The July Almanac
  • Notes: America's No. 1 Song
    Daniel Mark Epstein
  • India: Dowry Murders
    Fergus M. Bordewich

India: Dowry Murders

A bride whose family can’t reward the groom may pay with her life

By Fergus M. Bordewich
July 1986 Issue
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