· September, 2014

Stories about India from September, 2014

The Curious Case Of Marrying Out Of Caste in India

  27 September 2014

Karthik Shashidhar, a freelance management consultant and data scientist, shares interesting statistics from the National Family Health Survey. Shashidhar discusses the percentage of women in India who are married to someone of their own caste. The caste system in India is based on an order of (predominantly) endogamous groups rendering marriage...