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- caste. Stewart Gordon writes that during the era of the Mughal empire, hypergamous marriage "marrying up", combined with service in the state army was another...
- 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)...
- infanticide were propertied (they owned substantial arable land), had the hypergamous marriage norm and paid large dowries. Mann, Kamlesh (1988). "Status Portrait...
- intermixing with less significant Rajput families through the practice of hypergamous marriage, which was commonly used to enhance or secure social status...
- statistical evidence for this. However, the Kunbis and Marathas had hypergamous inter-community marriages – a rich Kunbi could always marry his daughter...
- African American women were more likely to be in age-hypogamous or age-hypergamous marriages in comparison with White American women. However, more recent...
- 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. At the same time...
- wearing Ambalavasi castes of Travancore and Malabar. Kurukkal women had hypergamous marriages with higher caste men of Travancore and men struck similar...
- Stewart N. Gordon states that during the era of the Mughal empire, "Hypergamous marriage" with the combination of service in the state army was another...