CHANGING NOTIONS OF MARRIAGE PAYMENTS AMONG THE SAVARA, ANDHRA PRADESH
CHANGING NOTIONS OF MARRIAGE PAYMENTS AMONG THE SAVARA, ANDHRA PRADESH

Summary/Abstract: Widespread prevalence of divorces and remarriages of both men and women is reported among the tribal communities in and outside India. However, significant attention on marriage payments in such cases has not been paid. The scholars have extensively dealt with the bride price paid to the parents or to the kin of the bride at the time of her first marriage and the significance of such a payment has been extensively dealt with. However, it is not clear whether transactions of cash and kind during remarriages are considered as bride-price on par with the first marriage. This paper especially focuses on the payments made by Savara men if they acquire mates through remarriage of married women. It primarily attempts to examine the extent to which the payments made by the man to the former husband (or his kinsmen) of his new wife in such cases is similar to or different from the bride-price paid at the time of a woman’s first marriage. Secondly, the paper examines the frequency of such marriages among the Savara, the changing notions surrounding such payments and their impacts on the Savara social organisation, particularly the position of women in it

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