| Problems With Inter-Cast Marriages |
India's five-level caste system has been the basis of Indian society for hundreds of years, creating subcultures in which people from the same caste have lived insulated or outcast from those socially considered below or above them. While the status of the caste system has been largely revoked legislatively (particularly in the governmental invalidation of the concept of the "untouchability" of members of the lowest caste), the social mores attached to the caste system have not died away so quickly in this traditional society. As such, inter-caste marriages remain a source of tension for many more tradition-minded Indian families.
Urban V/s Rural Change
Many Indian cities-dwellers have been exposed to reformist ideas and have gradually accepted the possibility of inter-caste marriages within their families. Unfortunately, in rural areas, change has been particularly slow in coming. Indian parents already tend to have a large, if not complete, say in the choice of marital partners of their sons and daughters. The relative isolation of rural Indians only exacerbates this traditionalism with regards to caste. READ MORE
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