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The author has attempted to draw an outline of the history of Hindu Intercaste Marriage in India, ancient as well as modern. First the author has dicussed marriage and its general principles, various forms, polygamy, polyandry and rules of restriction about gotras and pravaras and also intercaste-marriage in early Vedic period. In the second part the author has tried to trace the history of intercaste marriage and also interracial mixture in ancient India and the ...
Swami Vivekananda said “The Upanisads are the religious treatises of the highest importance and their place may be compared with that of the New Testament in the Christian world… and the Veda could be said to be the oldest Indo-European literary monument. Because of its antiquity the Veda stands at the head of Indian literature and hence no one who was not gained an insight into the Vedic Literature can understand the ...
The richness of Indian culture has left its stamp in all institutions designed by the mind of ancient India, and the judicial system formulated by ancient India is no exception to this general rule. Ancient India employs the term ‘Dharma’ to signify the concept of law, and this law is comprehensive in character in as much as, it brings under its orbit not only the laws of physical science, but also social laws, which the experience, wisdom and intution of ...