The Importance Of Honor Killings In India

“Honour is kind of what you get when you weaponise manners, but if you 're brought up in a system where honour is valued more than life itself it makes a lot more sense” (Jasper Fforde). In India many religious traditions are created to believe that men are superior to women. This allows men to believe that as a higher status, they are allowed to control the actions of the women in their families. Honour killings take place all over India without being reported daily. Ultimately, this is the reason why laws and restrictions must be applied more rigorously amongst India’s society to better protect the rights of women living in a country encompassing injustice and unseen wrongdoing. In order to create and apply laws the government must attend

In order to resolve this ongoing issue, police corruption should be reported and the Indian police should be thoroughly sifted for corrupt government members. Police are known to ignore reports made against honour killings due to their respect towards the ones that the reports are being made against. These honour killings are often disregarded and not counted as as homicides. The usual “victims, therefore, are women and persons belonging to vulnerable disadvantaged and socially oppressed castes”(???). Since the honour killings are occurring against the minority, the police choose to handle these cases with less importance or sometimes, not at all. The Indian government should be taking honour killings in a more serious matter in order to create a more civilized society. “Honour killings should be dealt with an iron hand. It [is] futile to reason with such barbaric society and only more awareness and abolition of the caste system could put an end to it”(???). Since the majority of the Indian government is run by men, the wrongdoings against women are often found to be ignored. Considering all of these factors, although men are the majority, the opinions of government leaders should not affect the way laws are set.

The women in Indian households have been raised to accept and respect the men in their families as they are told to. During incidents where honour killings occur in public, many citizens do not have to courage to stand up to the ones committing the crime. As shown in this article, this means that “students” can be “murdered in full public view”(???) and no one will do anything about it, such as the incident in Udumalpet. Incidents like such occur since society has been raised to accept that everything men do is done right. Due to religious and traditional oppression, women are raised to believe they do not choose who they marry. However, Indian citizens must understand it is a choice of will and one should be allowed to marry whom they please. As this article states, “Both the government of the day and civil society should come out strongly in defense of liberal values relating to inter-caste marriages and the right of men and especially women to choose a companion of their choice. In this, neither the family, not the community (let alone the state), should have any say”(???). The government or family of one should not be in charge of what they do in their life. Therefore, one should be allowed to marry whoever they will to marry no matter what traditions of the family are being broken. In