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(a)Explain the term polyandry.[2]
Answer
Polyandry is the form of marriage in which one woman has two or more husbands at the same time. It is the counterpart of polygyny, in which one man has two or more wives, and both are species of polygamy.
It takes two forms. Fraternal polyandry, where the husbands are brothers, which is the commoner form and is recorded among the Khasas of the Himalayan region and the Todas of the Nilgiris; the Mahabharata records it of Draupadi, who was married to the five Pandava brothers. Non-fraternal polyandry, where the husbands are not related, recorded among the Nairs of Kerala.
Its legal position. Polyandry is lawful under no Indian personal law. For Hindus, section 5(i) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 requires that neither party has a spouse living, so a second husband taken during a subsisting marriage makes that marriage void under section 11 and is an offence under section 17 read with section 82 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
Where it survives it does so as a custom, and section 29(2) of the Act preserves rights recognised by custom. But a custom must be ancient, certain and reasonable, must not be opposed to public policy, and must be pleaded and proved by evidence. A custom permitting polyandry would also have to survive the argument that it is inconsistent with the Act, which section 4 makes overriding.
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