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In order to study the notion " Forms of power " , we found our issue which is " To what extent traditions and gender gap in India are a form of power ?" To have many different points of views, we spent time on several documents and reports :

- India is deeply rooted in Traditions such as :

- The wedding expenses : the bride's family have to pay for the wedding, her jewelery, its food and the most important the dowry.
-  The obligations toward her in laws : in traditional Indian families, the bride goes to live in the groom's house and is expected to look after all the needs of her in-laws.
- Arranged marriages : appoximately 25 % of women get married before the age of 15. We studied a document which relate the first meeting between a 13 year-old girl and her husband.
- The caste system : A woman can't marry a man from another caste. In fact, castes are very ordered like the Varna system, so people who are in love with each other can't be together if they aren't in the same caste. The example of Ammu, a young Indian woman from Kerala, who is divorced and who is in love with Velutha. However Velutha belongs to  the lowest cast "The Untouchables" so they can't be together. It's a perfect example which show us that the caste system avoid their chances to get married


So, deeply rooted traditions victimize essentially women, which lead to (consequences) :

- The fact that family prefer boy to girl because of :
- the wedding expenses which can generates to a deep debt
- the bride's family doesn't want to lose their maids, their stick for their old age.
- the fact that boys are financially attractive, they can look after the family business and keep the family's name

- The sex selective abortion  which is illegal and forbidden but it's mostly currently. For example, we saw that a girl named Nilima was forced to accept  abortion if they expect a baby girl. 

- A social pressure which is endured by women and which can be considered as a psychological torture. In fact, women have to choose if they are pregnant with a girl, eiheir they can accept abortion or they can leave her husband and her in-laws and try to built a new life as a new wife. It's perfectly the Mitu's case, a 36 woman from Delhi who decided to leave her groom : the doctor Khamal Khurana and her in-laws  because she refused to get rid of her daughters so she takes the decison to escape and  live her live as a new life  with her girls.

_ A lack of women, in fact there are more boys than girls. For example, there are twice more boys in Karora. So we can suppose that is one of  the rape 's origin. Thanks to the last document we learnt that there was 24 000 reportedly cases rape annualy.

-The sterilisation of women in order to curb the population in India but it's also lead to ill-treatments because of operations in bad conditions for example 80 operations in 3 hours.


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