Ernest Crawley’s predecessors E.B. Taylor and Sir J.G. Frazer, through their researches, had made it amply clear that since the current theories of the origins of marriage were based on superficial knowledge of modes of primitive living and thinking, therefore, were not sound and never to be relied upon. One of the basic contention, in this context, was that the system of marriage was studies in isolation from the marriage ceremonies. The author of the present ...
