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Communities where women marry multiple men exist all over the world. They often have one thing in common
High in the misty hills of Himachal Pradesh this summer, a wedding drew hundreds of villagers – not for its pomp, but for its rarity. Sunita Chauhan stood at the altar flanked by two grooms, brothers ...
Marriage takes a remarkable variety of forms around the world, shaped by geography, economics, religion, and history. Among the rarest and most fascinating is polyandry, the practice of a woman having ...
A storm erupted on social media after pictures of a unique wedding showing two brothers marrying the same woman in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district went viral. The wedding sparked a heated debate ...
Polyandry, a tabooed practice which allows a woman to have two or more husbands at the same time, has been outlawed in almost every part of the world, including in India. However, the practice is ...
A comprehensive survey of traditional societies in the world shows that 83.39% of them practice polygyny, 16.14% practice monogamy, and .47% practice polyandry. Almost all of the few polyandrous ...
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