01-17-2012, 07:42 AM
What has happened is that there are too many sub-castes. Within a sub-caste, even if you marry a 4th cousin, because of multiple tangled relationships, it is same as a 2nd cousin. Thats what the Amish are finding out the hard way.
Same gotra in a different sub-caste is safer than out-of-gotra within same subcaste
Same gotra in a different sub-caste is safer than out-of-gotra within same subcaste