| They have the same complicated arrangement of exogamy and hypergamy as the Khatris, and will take food from that caste. |
| Family connections help here, and hypergamy for both men and women is very important. |
| For historical reasons, women in our culture practice hypergamy, the tendency to marry men of higher status than their own. |
| All these strata tend to be endogamous or, in the south, observe the marital rule of hypergamy. |
| Hockings and Merchant collaborate in the final essay to examine hypergamy and hypogamy in pre-modern Kerala. |
| Owing to these rules, hypergamy, the marriage of a wealthy woman of lesser status to a man of superior status was not uncommon in the old regime. |
