@article{oai:chuo-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:02000580,
 author = {OKAMITSU,Nobuko and オカミツ,ノブコ},
 journal = {政策文化総合研究所年報},
 month = {Sep},
 note = {application/pdf, Traditionally, most marriages in India are arranged marriages, in which parents find a suitable spouse for their child from among those belonging to the same caste and following the same religion. In the case of arranged marriages, the opinions of parents and relatives usually take precedence over the wills of the potential marriage partners; therefore, arranged marriages between people from different religions are rare. Nevertheless, some couples do undergo interreligious marriages. Such marriages are far outside traditional values and are not welcomed by not only parents but also other relatives, so they are very rare.
 Indiaʼs census began in 1872, but it contains no data on interreligious marriages. Therefore, the actual status of interreligious marriage in India remained unknown for many years. Under these circumstances, in 2013, the International Institute for Population Sciences published a report on interreligious marriage. The report was based on the India Human Development Survey 2005 (IHDS), which contained information from 41,554 households in 1,503 villages and 971 cities nationwide. The survey consists of selecting married women aged 15 to 49 and classifying their marriages. It was concluded that the rate of interreligious marriage was 2.21% (Zeeshan Shaikh: 2021).
 The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of marriages within the Nadar caste group in Tamil Nadu, South India. Unlike other caste groups, the Nadars have no resistance to interreligious marriages. This paper clarifies the background of the establishment of interreligious marriages among this group and analyzes them to clarify how caste and religion are related to marriage in India. Specifically, I will examine interreligious marriages performed among the Catholics of Nadars. I collected information on this caste during my research (between 1999 and 2000) conducted in M Parish of Kottar Diocese, Catholic, which is located in Kanya Kumari District, Tamil Nadu.},
 pages = {87--100},
 title = {Interreligious Marriage and the Bonds of Caste: The Case of the Nadars in South India},
 volume = {26},
 year = {2023}
}