 Socially the custom makes marriage difficult by narrowing the field of selection, for neither can a man go very far among strange tribes to seek his wife, nor a father to seek a husband for his daughter ; so that a poor man often does not marry at all,...  The Rajputana Gazetteer - 69 페이지1879전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | 1876 - 592 페이지
...man often does not marry at all, while a rich man of high birth who can maintain a number of wives is besieged with applications for his hand, in order...unmarried daughter may at least be formally removed. And if there were space here, we might give some curious facts to show how tins difficulty of marriage... | |
 | 1876 - 598 페이지
...man often does not marry at all, while a rich man of high birth who can maintain a number of wives is besieged with applications for his hand, in order that the stigma of an unmarried daughter nay at least be formally removed. And if there were space here, we might give some curious facts to... | |
 | Sir Alfred C. Lyall - 1882 - 352 페이지
...go very far among strange tribes to seek his wife, nor a father to seek a husband for his daughter ; so that a poor man often does not marry at all, while...unmarried daughter may at least be formally removed. And if there were space here, we might give some curious facts to show how this difficulty of marriage... | |
 | Sir Alfred C. Lyall - 1884 - 390 페이지
...his wife, nor a father to seek a husband for his daughter ; so that a poor man often does not many at all, while a rich man of high birth is besieged...unmarried daughter may at least be formally removed. And if there were space here, we might give some curious facts to show how this difficulty of marriage... | |
 | Sir John Strachey - 1888 - 458 페이지
...go very far among strange tribes to seek his wife, nor a father to seek a husband for his daughter ; so that a poor man often does not marry at all, while...unmarried daughter may at least be formally removed.' ' Thus, while an unmarried daughter is looked upon in India as hopelessly disgraced — and this is... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Author of The Mediterranean illustrated - 1888 - 458 페이지
...go very far among strange tribes to seek his wife, nor a father to seek a husband for his daughter ; so that a poor man often does not marry at all, while...unmarried daughter may at least be formally removed.' 1 Thus, while an unmarried daughter is looked upon in India as hopelessly disgraced — and this is... | |
 | 1891 - 472 페이지
...claim whatever to inherit, and is no sort of bar to a marriage, except only that a man does not marry into his mother's family. His maternal aunt, for instance,...this state of things may be traced in some degree the variety of heirs in Rajputana, and it has a direct tendency to encourage polygamy and infanticide.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich - 1904 - 432 페이지
...matrimony is most inconveniently narrow. A poor man frequently cannot marry at all, and a rich man is " besieged with applications for his hand in order...unmarried daughter may at least be formally removed." Thus large dowries are usually necessary to enable a girl to marry, and suitable alliances may mean... | |
 | 1891 - 674 페이지
...cannot go very far among strange tribes to seek his wife, nor a father to seek a husband, so that a pour man often does not marry at all, while a rich man...this state of things may be traced in some degree the variety of heirs in Rajputána, and it has a direct tendency to encourage polygamy and infanticide."... | |
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