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Polygamy in Pakistan is legally permissible, according to the law of 1961, [1] but restricted to Muslim men, who may have a maximum of four wives at one time. [ 2 ] However it is illegal for Hindus as per the Hindu marriage law .
Polyandry (/ ˈ p ɒ l i ˌ æ n d r i, ˌ p ɒ l i ˈ æ n-/; from Ancient Greek πολύ (polú) 'many' and ἀνήρ (anḗr) 'man') is a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. Polyandry is contrasted with polygyny, involving one male and two or more females.
More specifically, these are tribes (mostly in Pakistan) and castes (mostly in India) located within the Punjab region of South Asia, ...
According to the 1941 census of India, there were 5.9 million non-Muslims in the territories that came to form Pakistan in 1947 (West Pakistan and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). During and after Pakistan's independence in 1947, about 5 million Hindus and Sikhs emigrated to India, with Punjab alone accounting for migration of 3.9 million people ...
In certain areas of Punjab, especially the Bathinda and Mansa districts of Malwa region, poor farmers follow the practice of polyandry under economic compulsion to avoid further fragmentation of their already small landholdings. A study conducted in 2019 by Panjab University found evidence of polyandry
The anthropologist Pnina Werbner have confirmed the continuing strength of tribal feelings among emigrants from Punjab in the United Kingdom. [9] This area was and still is an important source of recruitment into the old colonial British Indian Army , under the martial race designation of the Punjabis in colonial era, and its successor, the ...
The Saraikis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group inhabiting parts of central and southeastern Pakistan, primarily in the southern part of the Pakistani province of Punjab. [21] They are mainly found in Derajat, a cultural region of central Pakistan, located in the region where the provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan meet.
While the total population of Punjab is 110 million as noted in the 2017 Pakistan census, [53] ethnic Punjabis comprise approximately 44.7% of the national population. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] With an estimated national population of 252 million in 2024, [ 5 ] ethnic Punjabis thus number approximately 112.8 million in Pakistan; [ a ] [ 54 ] this makes ...