{"id":11890,"date":"2006-11-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/11\/08\/gujarati-community-seeking-tribal-brides-for-their-boys\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T12:00:00","slug":"gujarati-community-seeking-tribal-brides-for-their-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/11\/08\/gujarati-community-seeking-tribal-brides-for-their-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarati Community Seeking Tribal Brides For Their Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/sify.com\/news\/fullstory.php?id=14323108\">sify.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">AHMEDABAD, INDIA, November 2, 2006: The Patel community in Gujarat, known for their entrepreneurial skill and hold over agriculture and business, is facing an unusual sociological crisis&#8211;a skewed male-female ratio and having to &#8220;buy&#8221; tribal brides for their boys, says this article. An unbalanced male-female ratio in the Patel community&#8211;especially among the Kadva Patels&#8211;has created a severe sociological problem. As a result of declining female ratio (ie, fewer girls than boys), the Patels are going to tribal areas of Vadodara, Bharuch, Panchmahals and other districts of Gujarat to &#8220;buy&#8221; tribal girls by paying around US$1,115 to US$2,230. &#8220;There are not enough Patel girls to marry the Patel boys. As a result, they are forced to buy girls from tribal areas of Gujarat to get their boys married,&#8221; said Gaurang Jani, a noted sociologist of Gujarat University. Among the Patels, there are two sub-castes&#8211;the Leva Patels and the Kadva Patels. Though both of these sections of Patels are enterprising and have made a name for themselves around the world as entrepreneurs and businessmen, the Leva Patels are better off economically.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sify.com AHMEDABAD, INDIA, November 2, 2006: The Patel community in Gujarat, known for their entrepreneurial skill and hold over agriculture,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}