King's College London

King’s College London (KCL) is a premier, public research university and one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. Founded in 1829, it boasts world-class programs across nine faculties, serving over 27,000 students from more than 150 countries. Ranked globally among the top 40 universities, KCL is globally renowned for its law, humanities, and medicine faculties, with the largest healthcare learning centre in Europe.

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A Law Made Divorce Legal in India. An Anthropologist Argues It Also Helped Bury the Grief for Its Dowry Dead

Dowry deaths have risen since the protest years — more than 6,500 in 2022 — even as the public mourning faded. In Public Culture, Kriti Kapila traces the silence to the 1955 reform that cut dowry loose from ritual and let it behave like a commodity.