High in the misty hills of Himachal Pradesh this summer, a wedding drew hundreds of villagers – not for its pomp, but for its rarity. Sunita Chauhan stood at the altar flanked by two grooms, brothers ...
Weeks after their wedding made national headlines, two brothers from Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district defended their decision to marry the same woman under the centuries-old Hatti tribal tradition ...
Polyandry, a tabooed practice which allows a woman to have two or more husbands at the same time, has been outlawed in almost every part of the world, including in India. However, the practice is ...
You’ve probably seen Seeking Sister Wife, and you’ve almost definitely seen Sister Wives, but have you seen Seeking Brother Husband yet? Premiering on TLC on Mar. 26, the show explores several ...
A comprehensive survey of traditional societies in the world shows that 83.39% of them practice polygyny, 16.14% practice monogamy, and .47% practice polyandry. Almost all of the few polyandrous ...
Socio-economic and Cultural Factors Underlying the Contemporary Revival of Fraternal Polyandry in Tibet. PhD dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2001. 1968 An Anthropological Study Of The ...