| Divorce
Rajasthan can easily claim to be the most advanced state
in the country in the matter of divorce. In this state, divorce was permitted
when there was mal-adjustment, mutual antipathy, mental and physical disparity,
willful desertion, conviction for infamous crime, habitual drunkenness,
impotency and insanity. Divorce was fairly common among the lower castes
and also among the Rajputs. It was not permitted in the Brahmin and Vaishya
communities.
In Kota, divorce was common among the lower castes as
revealed from the records of the eighteenth century. Divorce was permitted
by law when the property which the wives had brought with them when they
got married was restored, and tax paid to the state.
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