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Panjab Castes Races, Castes and Tribes of the People of Panjab

Denzil Ibbetson

Denzil Ibbetson’s work on the Panjab Castes is an extremely systematic and clearly arranged work. Every caste, from highest to the lowest classes of aborigines and outcastes is reviewed in much detail. It is indeed the first attempt to give anything like a general survey of the castes and tribes as...

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It was mentioned as a book from 1881 that first explicitly discussed the concept of hypergamy, specifically in relation to parents seeking to marry their daughters into a higher-status tribe.

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I know that in 1881, it was first used or first found in a book kind of like explicitly written about in a book called Panjab Castes.

— Episode: Short Stuff: Marrying Up

Episode: Short Stuff: Marrying Up

It was mentioned as a book from 1881 that first explicitly discussed the concept of hypergamy, specifically in relation to parents seeking to marry their daughters into a higher-status tribe.

"

I know that in 1881, it was first used or first found in a book kind of like explicitly written about in a book called Panjab Castes.

That was a book by Sir Denzil Ibbotson where they talked about a man seeking to marry his daughter off to a member of a tribe superior to his own.

Episode: Short Stuff: Marrying Up

It was first mentioned in this book in 1881, as a concept of a man trying to marry his daughter into a tribe of higher status than his own.

"

I know that in 1881, it was first used or first found in a book kind of like explicitly written about in a book called Panjab Castes.

That was a book by Sir Denzil Ibbotson where they talked about a man seeking to marry his daughter off to a member of a tribe superior to his own.

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