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inter-caste marriage Intercaste marriage (ICM), also known as marrying out of caste, is a form of Exogamy, exogamous nuptial union that involve two individuals belonging to different castes. Intercaste marriages are particularly perceived as Acceptance, socially unacce ...

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have been gradually gaining acceptance due to increasing education, employment, middle-class economic background, and urbanisation . As of the 2011 census, 5.8% of the marriages in India were inter-caste marriages. In India, inter-caste marriages were publicly encouraged and supported by the incumbent government under

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by the offering of financial encouragement to those who marry people from lower castes, C. N. Annadurai, the former Chief Minister of

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, and social activists such as Periyar E. V. Ramasamy,Anita Diehl. (1977). E. V. Ramaswami Periyar. ''A study of the influence of a personality in contemporary South India'', Scandinavian University Books: Sweden. . Raghupathi Venkataratnam Naidu and Manthena Venkata Raju. In the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the Government offers a cash award for inter-caste couples. The Supreme Court of India has also declared that inter-caste marriages are in the national interest and a unifying factor for the nation and there has never been a bar on inter-caste or inter-religion marriages in independent India. In 2017, the Prime minister

started a scheme in which 2.5

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, that is 250,000 rupees will be given to inter-caste couples if one of them is a

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According to the 2017 Study conducted by the Indian Statistical Institute, inter-caste marriages are more frequent in Rural areas (5.2%) than Urban areas (4.9%). The Survey also found that the inter-caste marriages are more common among poor people (5.9%) than rich people (4.0%). According to the Studies conducted by the National Council of Applied Economic Research in 2016, about 5% of the marriages in India are inter-caste marriages.

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had the highest number of inter-caste marriages, where about 55% of the marriages were inter-caste marriages and

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had the lowest number of inter-caste marriages, where only 1% of the marriages were inter-caste marriage. According to a survey, the education of the husband's mother has a significant effect on inter-caste marriages. The probability of inter-caste marriages was found to increase by 36% with a 10-year increase in education of the husband's mother. In a 2010 report, the National Commission for Women (NCW) documented 326 cases of honour crime in the past year, the majority of which were due to

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