Where children conduct their parents’ marriage

Saputara (Gujarat): Among the Bhil tribal community in Gujarat’s Dang district, youths very often conduct the marriage of their parents! This is among the many quaint customs this broad-minded community has been following from age-old times.

According to Dayabhai Patel, a tribal from the area in southern Gujarat, the Bhils follow a tradition where if the parents of the bride are too poor to conduct the marriage, the girl is sent off with the boy after a formal engagement.

“It is a Bhil custom. The girl is sent to live in the husband’s house and they have kids. When the children grow up, they first marry off their parents before their own marriage,” Dayabhai, a driver with the Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Ltd (TCGL), told this visiting IANS correspondent. Read More................Where children conduct their parents’ marriage

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