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Polyandry in India
Polyandry in India refers to the historical practice of polyandry, whereby a woman has two or more husbands at the same time, on the Indian subcontinent or the current practice of polyandry in the country India. The popular Hindu epic ''Mahabharatha'' provides the first striking example: Draupadi, daughter of king of Panchāla, married to five brothers. Polyandry was mainly prevalent in the Kinnaur Region a part of Himachal in India which is close to the Tibet or currently the Indo-China border. As mentioned in the Epic Mahabharata, The Pandavas were banished from their Kingdom for thirteen years and they spent the last year hiding in this hilly terrain of Kinnaur. A minority of the Kinaauri's still claim to be descendant of the Pandavas and thus justify the practice of Polyandry. However this is a debatable issue as Kinnauris existed much before the Pandavas as mentioned in the epic. Apart from Kinnaur, Polyandry was practised in south India among the Todas tribes of Nilgiris, Nairs of Travancore and Ezhavas of Malabar. While polyandrous unions have disappeared from the traditions of many of the groups and tribes, it is still practiced by some Paharis especially in Jaunsar Bawar region in Northern India.
Recent years, have seen the rise in fraternal polyandry in the agrarian societies in Malwa region of Punjab to avoid division of farming land.〔(Draupadis bloom in rural Punjab ) ''Times of India'', Jul 16, 2005.〕
==Kinnaur==
Polyandry is in practice in many villages of Kinnaur. Fraternal Polyandry (where husbands are related to each other) is mainly in practice in villages, where the societies are male dominated and which still follow old rituals and customs. There are many forms of Polyandry which can be found here. Most often all the brothers are married to a woman and sometimes the marriage to brothers happens at a later date. The wife can only ascertain the blood-relationship of the children, though recently there have been a few instances of paternity tests using DNA samples being used to solve inheritance disputes. The rules for breaking the marriage is strict and a brother going against the marriage agreement can be treated as an outcast while losing all his shares in the property. The territory of Kinnaur remained forbidden for many years as the land route was only established 30 years back.
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