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- primogeniture and patrilineal inheritance. Despite their younger members having hypergamous relationships with Nairs, whose caste traditions were matrilineal, Nambudiri...
- M****mriti, that is the Laws of Manu (Shraddhadeva Manu), to describe a hypergamous union between a high born man and a woman of a lower standing (by birth)...
- reciprocal marriage among Nairs and this term was not used just to denote hypergamous marriages between the Nambudiris and the Nairs. Alternate names for the...
- intermixing with less significant Rajput families through the practice of hypergamous marriage, which was commonly used to enhance or secure social status...
- the neighbourhood and he also has a bike. Amit is a singer in a hotel. Hypergamous Bijli starts meeting Amit in the absence of Ramesh. Alongside Ramesh...
- castes. Stewart Gordon writes that during the era of the Mughal empire, hypergamous marriage "marrying up", combined with service in the state army was another...
- infanticide were propertied (they owned substantial arable land), had the hypergamous marriage norm and paid large dowries. Mann, Kamlesh (1988). "Status Portrait...
- policy of its rulers, derived its strength from its nobility which was hypergamous and included the Turks, Afghans, Uzbegs and even Hindu Rajputs and Khatris...
- their own caste led to the practice of hypergamy. Gough notes that These hypergamous unions were regarded by Brahmans as socially acceptable concubinage,...
- relationships called as Sambandhams, bypogamous for the Namboodiri male and hypergamous for the Nair female In the Hawaiian Islands, the privilege for chiefs...