Indian textbooks always seem to be making headlines for all the wrong reasons. In a previous article we had taken it upon ourselves to unearth some of the ridiculous mistakes and absurd information being imparted to young impressionable minds in our country, and it truly was appalling. The kind of information being circulated has been borderline bizarre, and now, yet again, an excerpt from a class 12 sociology textbook has been making rounds of social media for the same kind of statements.
As reported by the Hindustan Times, it seems that the Maharashtra State Education Board believes that “ugliness of the girl” is a legitimate reason for why families in India can demand, what is possibly one of the greatest maladies of our society, higher dowry. A screenshot taken by the publication reads of the paragraph in question reads, “If a girl is ugly and handicapped, it becomes very difficult for her to get married. To marry her, the girl’s bridegroom and his family demand more dowry. The helpless parents of such girls are then forced to pay up as per the demands of the bridegroom’s family.”

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