hypergamy , also: marrying up

Hypergamy comes with a cost though: the dowry, which often costs as much or more than an entire house.

For citizens of rural India, hypergamy is an opportunity to modernize.

The general practice of endogamy, although in some situations hypergamy is acceptable.

All the clans have equal status, and there is no concept of hypergamy.

Marriages in rural India are increasingly examples of hypergamy.

Each clan has equal status, and the community do not practice clan hypergamy.

These clans are of unequal status, and the Chero practice clan hypergamy.

Subgroups within a jati may practice hypergamy or exogamy.

He believes that both polyandrous sambandhams and hypergamy were most common in Central Kerala.

They also practice clan and camp exogamy, although there is no system of hypergamy, as all their clans are of equal status.

The Tirgar practice hypergamy and hypogamy.

The Nambudiri Brahmin tradition which limited the extent of marriage within their own caste led to the practice of hypergamy.

See: Hypergamy, Waithood.

Some Nair women also practiced hypergamy with Nambudiri Brahmins from the Malabar area.

In northern Travancore there appears not to have been as great a prevalence of hypergamy because of a relative scarcity of Brahmins living there.

Hypergamy - act or practice of seeking a spouse of higher socioeconomic status, or caste status than oneself ; in contrast to hypogamy.

Sambandham denoted hypergamy between Nair women and Namboothiri men as well as reciprocal marriage among Nairs.

The Brahma Bhatta claim a higher status from the Rao Bhatta, a system of hypergamy exists among these two groups.

Daniel Lim is suffering from hypergamy, a widespread ailment that is causing Singapore's Government serious concern about the future of its economy, social structure and national defense.

The practices of thalikettu kalyanam, the polyandrous sambandhams, and also the existence of large tharavads did decline during the nineteenth century, as did that of hypergamy.

China, and many other Asian countries, share a long history of conservative and patriarchal view of marriage and the family structure including marrying at a young age and hypergamy.

This process occurred more rapidly in some areas than in others, and in Central Kerala the traditional systems still lingered as late as the 1960s, although hypergamy had largely disappeared everywhere by the 1920s.

There was a secret, suspect taste for girls of rather better background than oneself: hypergamy - marrying upward - a Fifties custom extensively explored in Osborne's play Look Back In Anger.'

It is not a matter of long past that in India hypergamy brought forth wholesale polygamy and along with it a misery, plight and ignominy to Brahmin woman having no parallel in the world.

A caste when is sub-divided into different sections of different social status the rule of hypergamy demanded that the parents must marry their daughters to a man of equal social status if not higher.