Artifact Highlights. 1  Harriet Tubman Hymn Book (1876) 2  Jim Crow Railroad car (1920) 3  Rosa Park's Dress (1955) 4  Chuck Berryâs Cadillac (1973) 5  Marian Anderson Ensembel (1939) 6  Tuskegee Airmen Trainer Plane, an open-cockpit PT-13 Stearman (1944)
Hypergamy (colloquially referred to as marrying up) is a term used in social science for the act or practice of a person marrying another of higher caste or social status than themselves. The antonym hypogamy refers to the inverse: marrying a person of lower social class or status.
Marriages in rural India are increasingly examples of hypergamy. Farmers and other rural workers want their daughters to have access to city life, for with metropolitan connections comes internet access, better job opportunities, and higher caste social circles.