In a quiet corner of Himachal Pradesh, a centuries-old tradition just made a modern-day comeback. A woman marrying two brothers might sound unusual in today’s world, but this age-old practice - known ...

If you knew anything about evolutionary biology, you’d know that polyandry, the practice of taking more than one husband, is an evolutionary aberration in human social structures because all human ...

Polyandry is not new to Himachal Pradesh and a primary reason for its prevalence in some parts of the state is keeping a family intact and the landholdings undivided, say multiple people familiar with ...

In a rare display of an age-old tradition, two brothers from the Hatti tribe in Shillai village of Himachal Pradesh married the same woman in a polyandrous ceremony that drew hundreds of onlookers.

Polyandry occurs when, for whatever reason, a society emerges where women are permitted to marry more than one man at the same time. For decades, anthropologists believed that it was extremely rare.

Dr Lize Mills is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Stellenbosch University. Professor Amanda Gouws is the SARChI Chair in Gender Politics at Stellenbosch University. In South Africa there are ...

Two brothers of the Hatti tribe tied the knot to a woman in Shillai village of Himachal Pradesh, with hundreds of people witnessing the marriage solemnised under the anachronistic tradition of ...

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 ...

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 ...