Haryana is a tiny state situated in the norther-en part of India. It is segmented in to 21 Districts and 80 Sub Divisions. Sirsa is one of the district in north-western part of Haryana surrounded by Punjab on north and Rajasthan on its west. although rural Haryana is similar in character and socio-economic make but this part is uniquely different because of rural area is dominated by the big land owners that is not the case in rest of Haryana. Land reforms has been implemented in Haryana in seventies and land owners were allowed to retain less than 18 acres land which is capable of growing two crops, assured irrigation and one crop area with less than 25 acres while other kind of land could be ratained up to 50 acres. Ellenabad is a Sub Division of Sirsa and situated in the north western part of the district. Ghaggar passes from the northern part whereas western side of Sub Division shares its boundaries with Rajhasthan. Villages are distinctly inhabited of marginal and landless; and big land lords. When land reforms were under implementation, this area was largely unirrigated and barren and so the land lords could allot/save big chunks of agricultural land. Over the time agricultural development see new advent in this state and these land were improved and become very profitable and productive and fertile. Because there was huge gap between small farmers and big landlords in terms of financial conditions. Small farmers need money for productive and non-productive needs such as marriage of girls, treatment of family members, bhat-chhuchhak(giving kind & monetary help to girls on specific occasions), seed, fertiliser, implements and so many other things of social & economic orientation and have to borrow the money from land lords on exorbitant interest. Over the times they fails to repay this borrowed amount and have to have sell their small portion of land to these land lords on the terms dictated by them. This process results in to the clubbing of land in the hands of few big land lords. They accumulated land more than the permissible limit. Then question arised how to save it?They found a way out of this in the legally wedded women of the family. It was easy for the men as the society and family structure was highly feudal and patriarchal in nature where women have no voice and in most cases they are not aware what is happening. The land grabber has now fixed their eyes on the women of the family in robbing their status of married women. And the whole process of this robbing is well articulated and planned where not only socially approved mores are destroyed but also misused the judicial and legal process. It looks strange but true how sentiments and very existence of women of family put on stake and to implement their ill design, mutually agreed divorce petitions were filed in the courts. In the courts, male counterpart agreed to give the land to the women for her livelihood and sustenance and actually this was the land that falls in the surplus pool. An unit of surplus land is saved by dissolving the marriage legally where women who is now mother of young kids and rearing the kids of her divorced husband in the same four walls. It is the gruesome act of the male hegemony where women are used as a tool to save the economic interest on the pyre of sacred relationship that was created in a bond for life after walking around the fire and taking seven sacred pledges to safeguard the honor, dignity and safety of his woman. This is the status of women in society who is used as a weapon to meet the sexual needs of her man, procreating and rearing his children and ultimately sacrificed her existence for his men by walking away from the bond of marriage and living a life without any legal status and dignity in the society and family. The agony is not culminated here. She is now made to indulge in the criminal conspiracy of her man. Government has notified in June 2014 that stamp duty will be exempted for transference of acquired property in the family. The same woman is now made to transfer her share that she got in decree of divorce from the court citing herself as divorced wife. It is well known fact that once the marriage Is annulled, her relationship with the man dissolved in all manners. The government is now robbed of stamp duty on a transaction that is not tenable. Economics plays a deciding role how a women of so called affluent society lead her life in social milieu. Women are born to sacrifice and the women of feudal society where patriarchal norms prevails are supposed to vanish their existence itself to save and safeguard the economic interest of their men. We can fight and mitigate the monitory corruption but how and who will fight against these decaying human values, callousness of highest order and demeaning a human creature who lives her life for her parents, husband and children without any voice of regret and protest when her existence itself is killed. Is this a society of humans? Is this a sort of corruption or a society that stands on immorality which is more glaring and creating a web of corruption of unique kind?
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