Caste in India: The Facts and the System c6.s3.36

c6.s3.36

It may be said that individuals are everywhere forbidden to marry within the *gotra* of which they bear the name, hence within the paternal *gotra*. But this prohibition does not exhaust the legal impediments. The usual rule is that a man may not marry into the *gotra* of his mother either, nor often into that of his father's mother, nor sometimes into the clan of his mother's mother.¹