I don't understand why this happens on our subcontinent. It's not just India. Pakistan Bangladesh etc
It happens in the sub continent because girls and women are regarded as family possession and property until married off. The same sick attitude exists amongst the wealthy and the middle class and the poor. I am marrying a very educated Indian Muslim from Gujarat and I was really taken aback with his westernised manners and way of thinking until I met his mother. Her attitude was that once the nikah was completed I would "become the property of her family". Took me two whole days to put her in her place despite her son trying to defend her "backward way of thinking". This kind of mentality must be nipped in the bud and the entire mentality of the desi male must be re-engineered with education.