"Sambandham " denoted hypergamy between Nair women and Namboothiri men . The veli system was beneficial to the matriarchal upper castes as also to the patriarchal Namboodiri and other Brahmin castes of Kerala.
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Although it is certain that in theory hypergamy can cause a shortage of marriageable women in the lowest ranks of a caste and promote upwards social movement from the lower Nair subdivisions, the numbers involved would have been very small.
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For example, the upper strata Waungwana ( also called " Swahili-Arabs " ) had the exclusive right to build prestigious stone houses, and Waungwana men practiced polygynous hypergamy, that is father children with low status and slave women.
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Their main clans, known as gotras, are the Ayodhyabasi, Mathur, Shrivastav, Belwar, Jaiswar, Belwar, Yadava & Chauhans from Ajmer Rajasthan, practice hypergamy, with clans of lower status giving girls in marriage to those of higher status, but not receiving girls.
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For example, food desert, hypergamy / " marrying down ", and cream skimming are lesser known phrases ( or not as widely reported in the media ) that are related to current cultural phenomenon or thoughts, but, probably because they're obscure, I am having problems locating enough.
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Most significantly, they adopted hypergamy and would utilise the rituals of " thalikettu kalyanam " and " sambandham ", which constituted their traditional version of a marriage ceremony, in order to advance themselves by association with higher-ranked participants and also to disassociate themselves from their existing rank and those below.
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I saw this story originally from the Independent just yesterday and a quick search suggests it went around, whether from the Independent and the UK, other sources or independentaly from the research . . ) P . S . Hypergamy and marrying down are the opposite of each other, I think you'll find the hypergamy and marrying up are even more discussed . talk ) 09 : 20, 10 April 2012 ( UTC)
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I saw this story originally from the Independent just yesterday and a quick search suggests it went around, whether from the Independent and the UK, other sources or independentaly from the research . . ) P . S . Hypergamy and marrying down are the opposite of each other, I think you'll find the hypergamy and marrying up are even more discussed . talk ) 09 : 20, 10 April 2012 ( UTC)
