CASTE SYSTEM AND MARRIAGE PROBLEM

 

CASTE SYSTEM AND MARRIAGE PROBLEM

Marriage is an institutionalised social relationship of crucial significance. It is generally associated with a nutnber of other dimportant social relationships. There are different types of marital union. These have implications for population composition property relations, inheritance etc.

Further, there are various regulations and prohibitions associated with marriage and sexual relations in various cultures.

Marriage is more than simply a legalised sexual union between a man and woman it is socially acknowledged and approved. In India, people generally believe that marriage is not between two individuals, but it is between two families in terms of bonds it creates between them. Certainly marriage provides recognition of legitimacy to children; it confers acknowledged, social status on the offsprings, and this is important in terms of inheritance and succession.

In caste system in India it is not permitted to contract marriage with a person of another caste, nor for the same person to undertake more than one. Caste system in India, there is no permission given intermarriage.