Page "Caste" Paragraph 52

According to social mores and the prevailing law, marriages, entrance into religious life and migration from one ’ s place of birth to another land required official permission from upper strata ( the lord and the council commissioner ).

When permission for marriage was granted by the upper strata of the society, the permission process required a human exchange ( mi-brjes, ).

The process was required by the lord or the council-commissioner to ensure that their tax-paying source of income was not lost.