The tribe from whom the deity Krishna is claimed to have sprung and over which he reigned after establishing his dominion in the city of D...

  Name given to some jatis who were thought to be so unclean that their very presence polluted caste Hindus, i.e. Hindus from the four var...

  Marriage Prohibitions are a set of laws that prohibit people from marrying one other. Hindus, like other cultures, have well-defined nor...

Traditional Indian society was based around a series of endogamous, or intermarried, groupings known as jatis ("birth"). The g...

  Jati means “birth” in Sanskrit. In Indian culture, the term Jati broadly represents a traditional social grouping. There were hundreds of ...

 One of the hundreds of subgroups of traditional Indian society known as jatis ("birth"). Each jati was linked with — and had a mo...

In anthropology, a marriage pattern in which members of a certain social group marry exclusively other members of that group.  Traditional m...

Traditional Indian society was built around a collection of endogamous groupings called jatis ("birth").  The group's heredita...

Traditional Indian society was built around a collection of endogamous subgroups called jatis ("birth").  The group's heredita...