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Res. J. Social Sci.  \nHonour Killings in India: A Study of the Punjab State  \nSatnam Singh Deol  \nDepartment of Political Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, INDIA  \nAvailable online at: www.isca.in, [www.isca.me](www.isca.me)  \nReceived 2nd April 2014, revised 20th May 2014, accepted 11th June 2014  \nAbstract  \nThe present study has been conducted through the documented case study as well as the content analysis methods. The study depicts that intolerance of the families to the pre-marital relationships and matrimonial choices of their daughters especially towards inter-caste marriages results into the honour killings. The extent of these causes, resulting into elopements and unpermitted love-marriages further aggravates the situation. The study further observes that in noticeable number of cases honour killings are executed as crimes of passion aroused by sudden provocation when the couples are caught in compromising situations by the family members of the girls. Besides fathers and brothers of the girls, there are direct involvements of their mothers, paternal and/or maternal uncles, family friends and even contract killers into the murders. It has been observed that the centuries old conformist mind set prevailing in the patriarchal society does not accept the girls to establish pre-marital relations or to find males of their own choices to marry with. The patronage of the community and the leniency of the law have made the honour killings frequent trend which possesses socio-cultural legitimacy as well. Therefore, besides constituting rigorous laws and rigid punishments to counter the problem, it is immediately required to change the mindset of the bigoted patriarchic societies to become tolerant towards matrimonial choices of their daughters especially towards inter-caste and inter-religious marriages.  \nKeywords: Honour killings, Jats, Patriarchic society, Inter-caste, sexual relationships.  \nIntroduction  \nMan is affiliated to the society not only socially but psychologically as well. The norms of the society are acknowledged and accepted by the man not as unavoidable social bindings but as acceptable moral obligations. Reasonably, the socio-cultural customs dominantly control the psychological behaviour of the man. The notions of good and evil, sacred and profane, moral and immoral, permissible and forbidden, honour and dishonor are transferred to the mindset of the man by the process of socialisation through the sociocultural phenomena in which he subsists. Thus man perceives the social behavior, status and role of his own and others within the milieu of his socio-cultural values. In every society, there are certain aspects of social behavior, patterned according to the status and role of various members of the society which are considered by the society as forbidden and if executed, are acknowledged as defiance and dishonour. The punishments in these cases obviously vary from society to society as per the nature and extent of the defiance and dishonor. The phenomenon of honour killings is the outcome of that socio-psychic milieu of typical societies where certain patterns of the behavior of human beings, particularly the females, are recognised as marking dishonour to their families and communities and the lost honour is reimbursed by killings them.  \nConceptualising Honour Killings: Honour killing is a global phenomenon 1 and has been widely reported in countries such as Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt,  \nPalestine, Jordan, Bangladesh, Algeria, Brazil, Ecuador, Morocco, Israel, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, the Balkans, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Italy, Yemen, India and many more countries2. It is estimated by the United Nations Population Fund that as many as 5,000 women and girls are killed by the members of their families and/or relatives each year for the sake of honor around the worl","cbCaiamkLIaQ4q4B","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiamkLIaQ4q4B","pdf",237106,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Conceptualising Honour Killings","[{\"question\":\"What does the study identify as a key cause of honour killings in Punjab?\",\"answer\":\"It links honour killings to families’ intolerance of daughters’ pre-marital relationships and matrimonial choices, particularly inter-caste marriages.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the study describe the circumstances in which honour killings may occur?\",\"answer\":\"It notes that many killings are carried out as crimes of passion after sudden provocation, especially when couples are caught in compromising situations by family members.\"},{\"question\":\"Which groups are reported as being involved in these murders?\",\"answer\":\"Beyond fathers and brothers, the study observes direct involvement of mothers, paternal and/or maternal uncles, family friends, and even contract killers.\"}]","Honour Killings in India: A Study of the Punjab State | PDF",25]