• Maruti A. Patoli
• Prof. G.K. Boodeppa

Encompassing numerous castes and ethnic groups, nearly about eight dozen linguistic and various regional groups are the deities of India. The rules and rituals, customs and ceremonies, cultures and festivals, dialogue and languages might not be similar comparing among the majorities of such groups (one group to another). For the last two decades, the caste system in India has been criticized as an unjust and discriminatory system of social stratification that is deeply entrenched. The ‘2011 Rural Poverty Report shows that discrimination based on caste and ethnicity still prevails particularly in rural parts of India, where more than 80 per cent of the country’s population reside. In this context, it is not surprising to ask whether inter-caste marriage is possible. This paper is based on the study conducted in a remote Thosey Village Development Committee (VDC), Belagavi district of India from May 11 to June 10, 2014 as a compulsory part of Masters in Social Work Program first semester's field work at Universities. The study attempted to explore perceptions of family care and its effect upon heterosexual inter-caste married couples in the study area. This study is the outcome of case study research. Generally, the reader of this paper will get the comprehensive idea about the family care, social support, marital satisfaction, state incentives and provision towards inter-caste marriages in the countryside of India. Thus, I argue: local elite people in the community despite inter-caste marriage receive healthy family care and prestigious support from the society, and ii) prevalence of "generational inter-caste marriage" – more than two generations – family members are well accepted both in private and public sphere.

inter-caste marriage, social support, family care, state incentives, generational inter-caste marriage

"Inter-Caste Marriage: Social Support and Family Care in Contemporary Rural Karnataka", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.751-760, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903599.pdf

"Inter-Caste Marriage: Social Support and Family Care in Contemporary Rural Karnataka", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp751-760, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903599.pdf