Honour Killing in India-An Analysis beyond Cultural Manifestation

Honour killing is subject to critical interrogation over its usage of word honour and its association with the uniqueness of culture. Such words and associations legitimise the act of crime into legitimate action taken by masculine community to prevent the disgrace on community by resorting to all types of violence against those men and women who challenge to defy it. This article is an attempt to bring in gendered angle to the rhetoric of honour killing. Such knowledge will bring to notice of the scholars the reasons which are political and economic too. This paper raises questions about the absence of any legislation against honour killing.