How did the tribal societies change their nature with time?
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the urban Barmans do not follow the custom. The parents may give their
movable or immovable property to any one of the sons and daughters or may distribute
equally among them as is in practice among the Bengali people in the town. Even in
absence of a daughter and a son, they inherit the properties to daughter-in-law and
son-in-law respectively instead of any other relative. Thus, the custom of inheritance is
changing among the Barmans in the town under the Bengali influence,
(iii) Marriage
Traditionally monogamy is practised in the Barman tribe settled in the rural and
urban areas of Cachar district. Remarriage is permissible only after death or divorce of
one's spouse. Generally, in the rural areas, the parents get their daughters married at
the age of 16-17 years. In the selection of a bride the guardians of the groom pay more
attention to beauty as well as weaving skills of the bride.
But in the town most of the parents arrange their daughters' marriages in the age
of 25 years onwards . The grooms' families are giving more importance to bride's
education and her family status rather than her beauty *and weaving skills.
The community traditionally prefers negotiated marriage. Most of the marriages
(77.97%) of the Barmans in the town have taken place through negotiations. Even then,
a significant proportion of the marriages (17.80%) have taken place through love affair
or by elopement of the bride and the groom with or without consent of their parents.
Besides, the community has recognized a few inter-community marriages
(5.04%) after the deviants have undergone some sort of punitive action (Dandi)
imposed by the committee of the Silchar Dimasa Samaj. Thus, in the given context of
modernization and heterogeneity in the urban setup the individual choices