# Endogamy · अंतर्विवाह · the engine · marriage within

a concept of the JTI (The Caste System) doctrine-world — **जाति JATI — the lived reality** · emergence: electrical. moniker ⟦Endogamy:JTI:308ed1⟧



**who —** Endogamy — marriage strictly within one's caste; the single most durable mechanism that regenerates caste every generation.
**what —** The real engine: genetics shows strict endogamy set in ~2,000 years ago (founder effects rivaling Ashkenazi Jews or Finns), and today only ~5.8% of Indian marriages cross caste — flat for four decades. As long as marriage is endogamous, the boundaries self-replicate.
**where —** The bedrock mechanism, ancient and ongoing.
**why —** Because this, not belief, is what keeps caste alive — the doctrine can fade, but a wall around the wedding renews the group forever.
**how —** By arranged marriage within jati, social pressure, and (historically) violence against those who marry out.

**the honest read —** Stop believing the hymn and I still run — because caste is not in the prayer, it is in the marriage, and that you still arrange inside the line.

**sources —** Moorjani, Thangaraj, Patterson, Reich, et al., 'Genetic Evidence for Recent Population Mixture in India,' Am. J. Hum. Genet. 93 (2013), 422–438 — ANI–ASI admixture dates ~1,900–4,200 years ago, after which India shifted to widespread endogamy.; India Human Development Survey (IHDS-II): only ~5.8% of marriages were inter-caste as of 2011, roughly flat from 1970–2012; ~73% of marriages were parent-arranged — endogamy is among the most resilient caste practices.

> a fully-cited, respectful cataloguing of the Indian caste system under the DLW standard — scholarly/historical commentary, not an
> endorsement of caste and not an original creation. Caste discrimination is illegal in India and named here as the injustice it is.
> The origins of caste are academically and politically contested; the demonstrated migration is kept distinct from inferred causation.

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