Distinguish endogamy from exogamy with Nepali rules.3.

Definition: a socially (and legally) approved, usually durable, union of partners that regulates sex, reproduction and the transmission of status and property — the institution through which family and kinship are formally created.Types (the classification answer):• By number of spouses:monogamy (one; the legal rule in Nepal — bigamy an offence under the Muluki Criminal Code 2074); polygyny (one husband, several wives — historically status- marked, now illegal); polyandry (one wife, several husbands — Nepal holds the classic fraternal polyandry of the trans-Himalayan districts, where brothers share a wife and hold land undivided: an ecological-economic adaptation to scarce farmland and a famous anthropological case).• By rules of partner choice:endogamy (marriage within the group — caste, ethnic group) vs exogamy (marriage barred within the group — gotra exogamy among Bahun-Chhetris; village/ clan exogamy in many communities). Some Kirat and other communities traditionally practised cross-cousin marriage (a form of preferential endogamy) — the rules differ by community; that is the point.• By mode of arrangement: arranged marriage (family-negotiated, the historical norm) vs love marriage, with the hybrid "love-cum-arranged" now the common Nepali compromise.Marriage in transition (the Nepal paragraph): legal minimum age now twenty for both spouses (Muluki Civil Code 2074) — yet child marriage persists at worrying rates (roughly a third of women still marry before 18 by recent survey estimates); dowry (dahej,…