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Marrying Outside the Caste in India
Rejected by family - Meenakshi Sundriyal from an upper class caste and Muslim Khurshid Ali
Meenakshi Sundriyal comes from a Brahmin, upper caste Hindu family in Uttar Pradesh in Northern India. Khurshid Ali also comes from Uttar Pradesh, but from a Muslim Orthodox family. The two of them decided to get married after having met at university in Delhi. It was a decision for which they paid a high price as both their families rejected them. Even when Meenakshi gave birth to her mother's first grandchild her mother refused to visit her.
