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This book, running into six volumes, provides encyclopaedic information on the institution of marriage. Tracing the origin and development of the institution of marriage, it deals not only with marriage, in a narrow sense of the term, but every aspect of heterosexuality—celibacy, incest, promiscuity, premarital sex, religious prostitution, female coyness, endogamy, exogamy, monogamy, polygamy and polyandry. It also discusses at length the marriage rites performed across the world.