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Chapter 1 Forced Marriage

"Shakru, you should really think about this matter. As long as you agree to this marriage, not only will your debt be written off, but the Buhat family is willing to pay a dowry of 50,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to 2.5 million rupees. You can only get 3,000 rupees in a month from the temple. This is equivalent to your six or seven years of subsidy. And people have said that even after marriage, you can still receive funding from Buhat family. Where can you find such a good thing?"

Aunt Ashari said excitedly. At this time, Shakru was full of helplessness and depression. He also knew that Aunt Ashari had good intentions, but he still couldn't accept such things. Although there were other reasons, the most important thing was that he was not an Indian at all.

In fact, he traveled from China in 2016 to the body of this 18-year-old Indian boy. It may have been because Shakru's father died of illness. Shakru could not bear the blow and did not come up in one breath. Then he didn't know why, Tang Ning, who had a car accident in China in 2016, traveled to him. Fortunately, Shakru encountered such a thing, so the strange behavior of Tangning just crossed was mistakenly thought by others that he could not bear the situation caused by the pain of losing his father for a while.

Speaking of which, Tangning was quite lucky. Not only could he continue to live, but he also had a young and handsome body. The most important thing is that the owner of this body, Shakhru Pandit, has a very noble identity and belongs to the highest level of Brahmin according to the caste system.

Although the Indian government had announced the abolition of unreasonable systems such as caste system as early as 1947, the caste system still exists in Indian society. Moreover, since this system has lasted for more than two thousand years, it has long been penetrated into the blood of Indians, especially Hindu believers. Therefore, even in modern society, it still exerts an incredible influence that outsiders are always exerting.

According to Hindu doctrine, believers are generally divided into four levels. The first level is the most noble Brahmin, responsible for interpreting scriptures and sacrifices, belonging to the monk class, that is, those who are responsible for speaking; the second level is Kshatriya, belonging to the samurai, who are responsible for administrative management and warfare, that is, those who are responsible for taking action; the third level is Vaishya, that is, civilians, responsible for basic work such as agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing and hunting. They have no political rights, but must use labor or donations to support the two levels above, that is,

The fourth class is Shudra for the poor, who is engaged in a more lowly job, that is, people who are trampled on their feet. In addition, there is another class of Dalit, a villain known as the "untouchable", who can only engage in the most humble jobs such as slaughtering livestock, dealing with corpses, cleaning toilets, etc. They cannot have any contact with the high-level personnel, otherwise they will be punished. These classes are hereditary, and generally there is no chance to change the class.

Therefore, in India, it is a great fortune to be reincarnated into a Brahmin family, because not only is the status noble, but you are also idle even if you don’t have to do production and are idle all day long, you can still go to the local temple to receive your own offerings on a monthly basis. Although this food and money are not much, it is enough to maintain a normal life for a family. (This is a bit like the hardcore crops during the Eight Banners)

This is how Shakru's family is. Both his father and grandfather are lazy and lazy, so he didn't save any money. His father's serious illness not only consumed all the savings in the family, but also owed a large amount of foreign debt. Shakru was also in a grief and died of grief. Tangning took advantage of it, and Aunt Ashalli also seized the opportunity of Shakru's family having no money to come to propose marriage.

In India, in addition to the racial system, there is another very strange system, which is the marriage system. In China and most places, men give gifts, and even the bride price in many places is sky-high. For example, before Tangning traveled through certain northern regions, the bride price was a house, a car, and hundreds of thousands of yuan in cash. However, in India, the opposite is true. The woman gave a dowry here, and the amount of dowry is similar to that in China, and it is even better. The logic of the Indians is: I will raise a daughter for you for the rest of my life in the future, and you must not give me some compensation, otherwise how can your daughter have a good life in the future? Therefore, although India has more men and fewer women, having a daughter is a curse.

Another reason for this phenomenon is actually because of the racial system. In India, if you are a member of the Vayas class, no matter how much money you make, your social status cannot be improved, and you still cannot enjoy the treatment of high-class personnel. When encountering high-class personnel, you still have to politely avoid it. Therefore, many Vayas or Shudra people are eager to improve their class status, and the easiest way to achieve is marriage. (In ancient times, there were also state lords or kings to enhance their caste to their subordinates, but now the government has announced the abolition of the caste system, so naturally they cannot take this path. This is similar to the flag-raising in the Qing Dynasty.)

According to Hindu doctrine, high-class men can marry low-class women, and the children born in this way also belong to the higher-class. If a high-class woman marrys a lower-class man, her children will still be lower-class. If the two parties have too big differences in class, they will be expelled from the family and beaten to a pariah. Therefore, many low-class families want to marry their daughters to high-class men to change their status. In order to maintain their status, girls in high-class girls can only marry high-class men or men of the same class, so unmarried men of high-class men appear extremely popular. Under this competition, in order to make up for the class gap and improve their competitiveness, low-class families can only significantly increase the number of dowry, and are even willing to provide funding to the man after marriage.

Not only is the Brahmin of the highest level, but she is also handsome and has an appropriate age, so she has been missed by many people for a long time. However, Shakru's father refused to allow his son to marry a lower-class wife, and Shakru was not old, so he never got married. Now Shakru's father is dead, and he is eighteen years old, so he can get married, so all the matchmakers rushed forward. Among these people who proposed marriage, the Buhat family was the biggest move, not only mentioned
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