Drawing on evidence from the India Human Development Survey-II, 2011–12, prevailing marriage customs and practices in India are analysed empirically. Issues such as mate selection, dowry, endogamy and ...

The young man, no older than 25, had gone to the afterlife with an opulent assortment of grave goods, including an entire elephant tusk. Archaeologists who excavated his 5000-year-old remains in 2008 ...

Cousin marriages raise genetic health concerns in the UK. India's laws on cousin marriages vary by region and religion. India's secular legal system offers an alternative for couples who wish to marry ...

The Coorgi, or Kodava, community in Karnataka can trace its origins to at least three different ancestral populations, including as geographically diverse as the Palliyar, a tribe from the South ...

IN attempting to formulate a theory of Hindu exogamy, Mr. Karandikar has attacked a subject of considerable intricacy, and if his book is difficult the fault is not to be attributed to the author. He ...

Raman Rajamannan, a tribal king from Kerala, will attend the Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi on Sunday with his wife Binumol. Raman is a king. But he has no kingdom. He wears a crown — a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A new study uncovers gender bias at the megalithic necropolis of Panoria where twice as many women were buried. A multidisciplinary research team led by the Archaeometry research group of the ...

Raksha Bandhan, celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu month Shravana, honored the bond between siblings. Rooted in village exogamy and religious tales from the Mahabharata, the festival ...

Burial with a horse at the Rákóczifalva site, Hungary (8th century AD). This male individual, who died at a young age, belongs to the 2nd generation of pedigree 4, and was one of the sons of the ...

The largest set of interconnected pedigrees reconstructed in Rákóczifalva (RK) and the cemetery map highlighting the burial location of the related individuals: a) a large (146 individuals) ...