Re: Hindu Marriages Act and cousins marrying each other
Posted By Y. Malaiya (malaiya@cs.colostate.edu)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:54:17 -0600
> 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],
Since they are from Bengal and not South India, they should not marrry,
although by law, they can.
Yashwant
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/marriage.html
