On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Illi Billi wrote: > > Is there any bar on marrying cousins according to the Hindu Marriages > Act in India? More accurately, a friend of mine and his cousin want to > marry: she is his mother's brother's daughter and they are both in love, > and apparently very deeply so. There is some dispute here: while some of > his friends believe that since they are both Hindu [Bengali Brahmins, if > needed for clarification], it is not legally possible, as per the Hindu > Marriage Act, there are some who wonder whether this is true: their > argument runs that India is after all a free country and Hinduism is > viewed as a liberal philosophy. (It is true that there are some bars on > same-"gotra" marriages, but here the "gotra" is different, also, and it > is not clear that that bar is legal.)
Well I don't think there is any such legal hindrance in marrying cousins
in Hindus because it is a common pracrice among the South Indian Hindus.
I personally know many people who have married their cousins with their
parents' consent.
But I am no legal expert and am not aware of any particular law that bans
marriages among cousins because none of those I know (who married their
cousins) didn't take any permission from any court.
