Its storyline bears some resemblance to real-life instances of gender imbalance and economics resulting in fraternal polyandry and bride buying in some parts of India.
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Fraternal polyandry was ( and sometimes still is ) found in certain areas of Tibet, Nepal, and Northern India, where polyandry was accepted as a social practice.
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Fraternal polyandry also accomplishes this, but does so by keeping all the brothers together with just one wife so that there is only one set of heirs per generation.
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Bi-fraternal polyandrous marriages were more common than tri-fraternal or quadri-fraternal polyandry, because the latter forms of marriage were often characterized by severe familial tensions ( reference missing ).
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Fraternal polyandry was traditionally practiced among Tibetans in Nepal, parts of China and part of northern India, in which two or more brothers are married to the same wife, with the wife having equal " sexual access " to them.
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The explanation for polyandry in the Himalayan Mountains is related to the scarcity of land; the marriage of all brothers in a family to the same wife ( " fraternal polyandry " ) allows family land to remain intact and undivided.
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Tibetan fraternal polyandry ( see Polyandry in Tibet ) follows a similar pattern, in which multiple sons in a family all marry the same wife, so the family property is preserved; leftover daughters either become celibate Buddhist nuns or independent households.
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Fraternal polyandry ( from the Latin " frater " brother ), also called "'adelphic polyandry "', is a form of polyandry in which a woman is married to two or more men who are one another's brothers.
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The references he has cited makes it clear that this polyandrous marriages were very rare and their existence was in dispute . "'" Although I have never met a Nayar woman whom I have definitely known to be polyandrous, I heard, from Nayar, of several cases of non-fraternal polyandry in recent times both from Walluvanad and from the Trichur taluk of Cochin . " "'
