Excerpt from Anglo-India, Social, Moral, and Political, 1837: Being a Collection of Papers From the Asiatic Journal From this last circumstance, an evil of great magnitude appears to have arisen. A Culina brah min may marry, or give his son in marriage to, a woman of an inferior order; but his daughters must marry persons of his own order, or remain ummar ried. When Culinas marry a woman of an inferior order, they receive large presents of money; and as they are not limited in the number of wives, some of them convert this privilege into a source of peen miary profit; and it is said that many of the disre putable Culinas marry from twenty to a hundred wives each. In the mean time, the sons of Culinas being generally pre - engaged in these venal matches, their daughters can find no husbands; and couse quently too frequently form irregular connections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.