A rare polyandrous wedding in India’s Himalayan region stirs global interest, spotlighting the ancient traditions of the ...

The Hatti tribe, spread across 450 villages in the Trans-Giri area, recently received Scheduled Tribe (ST) status, in part ...

Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia cited anthropological evidence for marriage customs, both ancient and contemporary. Justice Samuel Alito talked about ancient Greece and Plato.

Despite the personal laws governing marriages and other marital rights, there is a space for customary laws under the ...

A unique polyandrous marriage from Himachal Pradesh's Hatti tribe has gone viral globally. Brothers Pradeep and Kapil Negi married Sunita Chauhan in their village, showcasing "Jodidara" or "Jajda," a ...

The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia.

A pair of brothers in rural India have married the same woman, upholding an ancient custom and sparking criticism from a ...

Locally known as Jodidara, this practice is a traditional form of fraternal polyandry, where two or more brothers share one ...

We do not have a complete picture of marriage in Ancient Egypt. The period spans almost three thousand years, from 3100 to 332 BCE, and customs, no doubt, varied across the centuries, or even from ...

Somewhere around 1549, an English priest introduced love into marriage. Sort of. Thomas Cranmer, the archbishop of Canterbury during Henry VIII’s break with Rome, was the author and compiler of ...