Hey, BBC, get it right! This is polyandry, but it's *fraternal* polyandry, a specific subset that's especially interesting, and from what I remember reading, rarer.
I wonder if we will see a revival of polyandry in the next decade, in areas that have severely limited the number of girls born and raised, such as rural China and India.
I think the revival of polyandry is too optimistic a view, but one can always hope.
In India the population is skewed mainly in the northern and western parts of the country. Hinduism can unfortunately be partly attributed for that. The rest of the country has a fairly balanced ratio, with one of the southern states even having a ratio in favour of females. What might happen (as is happening is china), is kidnapping of girls who'll then be sold as brides. It's a depressing thought, but I don't think the status of women is going is going to improve just yet.
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Strangely enough, Hinduism is the only religion that has a case of ployandry in it- with < a href="http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/mythology/mahabharat/draupadi.htm">Draupadi from the Mahabarata, who had five husbands.
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how is that? These Nepalese are Vajrayana Buddhists. Or do you mean not fraternal polyandry?
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Unless ofcourse you're considering Buddhism as an offshoot of Hinduism.
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In India the population is skewed mainly in the northern and western parts of the country. Hinduism can unfortunately be partly attributed for that. The rest of the country has a fairly balanced ratio, with one of the southern states even having a ratio in favour of females. What might happen (as is happening is china), is kidnapping of girls who'll then be sold as brides. It's a depressing thought, but I don't think the status of women is going is going to improve just yet.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/743699.stm
http://www.insightnewstv.com/d08/
There's plenty more, so you should google it.
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