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by mohanmcgeek 1520 days ago
> Exogamy between castes remains very low, even between different high castes.

What are you basing this on?
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genghizkhan 1520 days ago
Not the GP, but I can anecdotally confirm this. Breaking caste barriers remains unusual in most of India. The Indian HN community is biased towards Bangalore, Delhi and Bombay where rates of exogamy amongst the upper middle class are far higher than in practically all other parts of India.
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pkphilip 1520 days ago
The Caste survey conducted in 2018 found that only around 5.8% of all marriages in India are intercaste:

https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/in...

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