Among the graduate sample there were, as we have seen, groups for whom endogamy was incomplete.
The former is reinforced by both the economic opportunities afforded to women, and by the acceptability of village endogamy and uxorilocal marriages.
If the frequency of endogamy is reduced, this should be accompanied by a diminution in the incidence of congenital malformations.
The author concludes that over the long term the campaign against endogamy very largely attained its objectives.
Remaining a closed society through social endogamy was considered essential to sustaining their sense of exclusivity and superiority.
Their exclusivity, their endogamy (forbidding suitors ' from the world '), have all the hallmarks of sectarian inwardness.
Rates of village endogamy decrease for the group of artisans and traders, and are much lower for the day labourers.
The marriage pattern is clearly one of tight endogamy as well as biological inbreeding.
