Just 5% of Indian marriages are inter-caste: survey

Fri, 14 November 2014

12:28

A depressing 30 per cent of rural and 20 per cent of urban households said they practised untouchability. Just five per cent of Indians said they had married a person from a different caste, says the first direct estimate of inter-caste marriages in India.

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