hypergamy meaning in Hindi

Examples

1. Some Nair women also practiced hypergamy with Nambudiri Brahmins from the Malabar region.
2. These clans are of unequal status, and the Chero practice clan hypergamy.
3. All the clans have equal status, and there is no concept of hypergamy.
4. The Tirgar practice hypergamy and hypogamy.
5. He believes that both polyandrous " sambandhams " and hypergamy were most common in Central Kerala.
6. Additionally, women are generally expected to marry men who are economically better off than themselves in a practice called hypergamy.
7. The Brahma Bhatta claim a higher status from the Rao Bhatta, a system of hypergamy exists among these two groups.
8. In northern Travancore there appears not to have been as great a prevalence of hypergamy because of a relative scarcity of Brahmins living there.
9. They also practice clan and camp exogamy, although there is no system of hypergamy, as all their clans are of equal status.
10. Today most people marry their approximate social equals, and in much of the world hypergamy is in slow decline : for example, it is becoming less common for women to marry older men.