Indian Wedding Bangles And Bracelet Collection 126

Indian Wedding Bangles And Bracelet Collection.  

By Samina Aamir 

b) Capturing women from from other clans/tribes meant these women were your sole possessions. No other man could claim them as his. This was hence an easy way of increasing a man’s prestige through his possessions.

(Pardon me I couldn’t resist giving the sociological lecture. Sometimes, I have just no doubt that I should become a Professor.)

So why am I getting all sociological and all? Because bangles came up as a consequence of point (b) up there. Let me explain. When women were captured and brought to the captor’s territory, they had to be tied up so that they could not escape. Hence their wrists were tied with rope to some pole or something. Later on, these ties were symbolically worn by the women as a symbol of their capture.