Religious views[edit]

Islam[edit]

Islam does not prevent marriages between individuals based on racial, ethnological, tribal or caste grounds; though every marriage still need to conform Islamic marital laws that prevents marriage of a Muslim woman to a non-Muslim man and a Muslim man to polytheist woman. [15][16]

Sikhism[edit]

Guru Amar Das was a proponent of inter-caste marriage, going against the social norms in Punjabi society at the time.[17]

Homogamy

Hypergamy and hypogamy