Eight-year-old Zakura dreams of becoming a doctor one day. But that may never happen if she’s sold as a child bride in exchange for a flock of 50 sheep. It’s a fate the girl’s father, Arafat, hopes ...

In a rare display of an age-old tradition, two brothers from the Hatti tribe in Shillai village of Himachal Pradesh married the same woman in a polyandrous ceremony that drew hundreds of onlookers.

Marriage patterns are changing among the tribal Gujjars and Bakerwals in Jammu and Kashmir. The two tribal communities now prefer marriages that are simple and less expensive; and the customs of ...

More than a century ago, in a court in Tura in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, a Garo tribal man filed a petition seeking compensation from his prospective father-in-law. According to Garo ...

An estimate shows that at least 150 agents are currently thriving on bride trading in Gujarat. AHMEDABAD: A few days ago a Tata Sumo, loaded with tribal belles, drove into Chanasma taluka of Patan ...

Chhota Udepur (Gujarat) [India], May 26 (ANI): Tribals in villages here follow an unusual tradition- marriages take place without the groom's physical presence. "This practice is followed in three ...