> Maybe not in Kerala but an older news report showed women in some > villages (in punjab iirc) saying they were being purchased as brides > as their economic condition didnt permit a fat dowry. These women, > from different northern and eastern states, spoke of how the men > didnt mind marrying outside their caste but the rating system on the > basis of skin color/beauty, etc... was applicable even in this > scarcity.
Not just that, some farmers in haryana have been reported to have *bought* one wife and shared her among the brothers in order not to split the family property any further Lukhman.
