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Gujarat, India, circa early 20th Century. Memon lineage traces back to the Lohanas who traditionally practiced Hinduism. [7] [8] The origin of the name comes from Mu'min (مؤمن, "believer" in Arabic) and later evolved to present name Memon. [9] The Memon community was founded in the 15th century by 700 families comprising 6,178 persons total ...
History of Surat. The Mughal Sarai was a caravanserai built in 1644 CE during the Mughal rule. The clock tower was added in 1844 by the British. Surat was founded in the late medieval period, and gradually became an important port in the Mughal Empire, though the earliest human presence may go as early as 300 BCE. [1][2] The Maratha rulers ...
Courtship and marriage in Tudor England. Courtship and marriage in Tudor England (1485–1603) marked the legal rite of passage [1] for individuals as it was considered the transition from youth to adulthood. It was an affair that often involved not only the man and woman in courtship but their parents and families as well.
The Western European marriage pattern is a family and demographic pattern that is marked by comparatively late marriage (in the middle twenties), especially for women, with a generally small age difference between the spouses, a significant proportion (up to a third) of people who remain unmarried, and the establishment of a neolocal household ...
The traditional social stratification of the Occident in the 15th century. Church and state in medieval Europe was the relationship between the Catholic Church and the various monarchies and other states in Europe during the Middle Ages (between the end of Roman authority in the West in the fifth century to their end in the East in the fifteenth century and the beginning of the modern era).
Bedding ceremony. The bedding ceremony refers to the wedding custom of putting the newlywed couple together in the marital bed in front of numerous witnesses, usually family, friends, and neighbors, thereby completing the marriage. The purpose of the ritual was to establish the consummation of the marriage, either by actually witnessing the ...
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The Stonor Letters are one of the significant collections of 15th century correspondence that have survived. This series of documents, though not the earliest private letters known in English, has more number and variety in terms of interest, [1] along with the other two major collections from this period, which are the Paston Letters and the Cely Letters.