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[citation needed] In the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the Government offers a cash award for inter-caste couples. [6] The Supreme Court of India has also declared that inter-caste marriages are in the national interest and a unifying factor for the nation [ 7 ] and there has never been a bar on inter-caste or inter-religion marriages in ...
In the past, the age of marriage was young, often childhood or early teenage. [14] The average age of marriage for women in India has been increased to 21 years, according to the 2011 Census of India. [15] In 2009, about 7% of women got married before the age of 18. [16] Arranged marriages have long been the norm in Indian society.
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But in 2020, the marriage rate was down to 5.1 per 1,000 people, the data showed. The rate started to climb the next year, and by 2022, the number of marriages had reached 6.2 per capita and over ...
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In India, marriage is thought to be for life, [41] and the divorce rate is extremely low. In 2021, India recorded the lowest divorce rate in the world at just 0.1 divorces per 1000 people. In contrast, the divorce rate in the United States was significantly higher, at 2.5 per 1000. The Indian figure, however, appears to be rising.
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Tamil Nadu is the state with highest child marriage rates in India in 2023. Rural rates of child marriages were three times higher than urban India rates in 2009. [3] The states with highest observed marriage rates for under-18 girls in 2009, according to a Registrar General of India report, were Jharkhand (14.1%), West Bengal (13.6%), Bihar (9 ...