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Discuss the influence of socio-cultural factors on age of marriage in India.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Age at marriage in India is not a private timing decision but an outcome of kinship structure. Where marriage is kanyadan, the gift of a daughter, it must be made while she is unquestionably pure; where it is an alliance between equals, the urgency disappears. It therefore varies more by region, caste and community than…

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