Definition for Village exogamy

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This form of exogamy is prevalent in North India. Members of the same village do not intermarry. People of a village consider themselves as brothers and sisters. Therefore, people of one village take bride from another village. For example, in Rani Khera a village in Aligarh District of uttar Pradesh, 266 married women had come from about 200 different villages averaging between twelve and twenty-four miles away; 220 local women had gone to 200 other villages to marry. as a result of these exogamous marriages, Rani Khera, a village of 150 households, was linked to 400 other nearby villages.