A recent wedding in Himachal Pradesh's Shillai village has brought the ancient tradition of polyandry back into public discourse. The ceremony, where Sunita Chauhan married two brothersâ Pradeep and ...

If you knew anything about evolutionary biology, you’d know that polyandry, the practice of taking more than one husband, is an evolutionary aberration in human social structures because all human ...

Polyandry, a tabooed practice which allows a woman to have two or more husbands at the same time, has been outlawed in almost every part of the world, including in India. However, the practice is ...

South African conservatives are firing back at gender-equality advocates who say the cultural practice of keeping multiple spouses should be extended to women. A proposal to legalize polyandry — in ...

Two brothers from the Hatti community in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district married the same woman in a public ceremony in the presence of thousands of locals. Sunita Chauhan from Kunhat village ...

Polyandry is not new to Himachal Pradesh and a primary reason for its prevalence in some parts of the state is keeping a family intact and the landholdings undivided, say multiple people familiar with ...

Most of us know about traditional polygamy in the sense of one husband having many wives. It’s practiced all over the world, including clandestinely in the United States. But where are the cultures in ...

A storm erupted on social media after pictures of a unique wedding showing two brothers marrying the same woman in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district went viral. The wedding sparked a heated debate ...