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.

You could do far worse, although I still don't get why they've been married up here.

Some then begin to marry up this with their politics.

Why, her ma wasn't but a little older when she married up with me.

His father then married up to three different native Hawaiian women, having many other children by them.

It is very difficult to marry up the sale of a record with a live show.

President tells the troops to follow his example, and marry up.

Sometimes it doesn't marry up, the supposed strength of one team against another.

They were inseparable, but never married up until he went to prison.

Somewhere along the line he taken off for the east and married up with this Tennessee hill woman.

In Islam, the husband may get married up to four times."

Trying to marry up those two realities is almost impossible for these kids.

One half has then to be turned over before the two halves are trimmed and married up.

One rule holds that nice girls must always "marry up."

Where on the red line do we marry up with Schooner?

There is also the tradition that a woman should "marry up" in status.

So now I've got to marry up both of those two combos.

Don't marry up with a man with the idea you're going to change him.

"What they're trying to do is marry up individuals with training slots," she said.

The big challenge facing us as we start this century is to successfully marry up the economy with the environment.

Cohen married for love but in the eyes of society, she had married up.

Women can improve their status by "marrying up"; men are rarely able to do so.

No need to marry up with somebody just because the other girls are doin' it.

To be quite crass about it, you wish to marry up in the world.