“This is proper in particular in terms of Hindus, however across all communities, polygamy isn’t always that common. Bigamy, then again, within reason who practices polygamy commonplace and that’s true across religions.”
Subsequent statistics seems to verify this. A survey finished by the authorities in 1974 put the polygamy determine at 5.6% among Muslims, and five.Eight% for higher-caste Hindus. Research by way of Mallika B Mistry of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Pune in 1993, later recorded with the aid of John Dayal, also concluded that “there may be no evidence that the share of polygamous marriage (amongst Muslims) is bigger than for Hindus.”