PURITY OF GOTRA BLOOD IS A MYTH
• Debate is on inside Khap Panchayats and outside their domain also .
• The debate has many aspects eg
- social,
- political ,
- economic
- and scientific.
This article deals with the questions which are being debated as the scientific aspect like
- What do we mean by first cousin?
- What is the meaning of sahgotra marriage?
- Does Gotra has a scientific base to explain its cutural identity?
- How genetically the first cousin marriages are different than sahgotra marriages?
- Will the congenital defects will be more than first cousin marriages in sahgotra marriages?
- Does the marriages within one community have potential of more congenital abnormalities?
- 7. Do the intercaste marriages would decrease the potential of congenital defects as compared to marriages in the same caste or community?
- 8. Does in Mahajan community where only father Gotra is spared ,these diseases are more?
- 9. In Brahmins also sahgotra marriages are there. Do we have more congenital diseases in these couples?
- 10. Is not it is the marriages in the same community?
If any congenital disease is more in these communities , is it because of sahgotra marriage or marriage within the same community?
Let us first discuss that this concept of pure Gotra culutral identity has any scientific bases or not ? Culturally we say that in Dahiya Gotra there is Pure Blood of Dahiya and so on in Hooda, Malik etc. This is a myth. Science does not support it.
Each gotra blood has mixture of unlimited gotras added after each generation.
In a way even if we have marriages between different gotras, the chances are of more congenital diseases because the marriage is within the same caste or community
• So as far as the marriages are cocerned from genetics point of view, the sahgotra or between the gotra marriages should not have much differance as far as the incidence of congenital disease is concerned.
• Exchange is taking place between a community.
• To safe Guard the community from congenital defects, Intercommunity marriages is the best choice.
• Whenever the subject is debated within educated members of community, or even among well informed social activists an argument is forwarded by the votaries of the tradition that the exclusion of Gotra of girl and boy’s fathers and mothers is based on scientific considerations.
• The argument is based on the notion that males and females belonging to one Gotra are more closely related by blood than the males and females belonging to different Gotras. Let us examine this argument a little more closely than that what appears on the face Of it. Let me take you two hundred years back.
• Let us assume that one boy named Bhim Boora married a girl Chandro Hooda and they were blessed with a Son named Sarju. By blood Sarju shared equal genetic traits of Boora and Hooda Gotras, therefore by blood he should be known as Sarju Boora Hooda. Also in same period of time let us assume that there was one Lal chand Punia who married Rajo Sheoran and the couple was blessed with a daughter named Ramkali.
• By blood Ramkali shared equal genetic traits of Punia and Sheoran Gotras and therefore she should be known as Ramkali Punia, Sheoran.
• In the course of time (say after 25 years of earlier event) Sarju Boora-Hooda got married to Ramkali Punia-Sheoran and they gave birth to a daughter and named her Sita. By blood (on genetic transmission basis) she was Sita Boora-Hooda-Punia-Sheoran.
• In the same period one young man of Sangwan Gotra married one young woman of Dahia Gotra and gave birth to a daughter named Bimala Sangwan-Dahia and on attaining a proper age married to a youngman Harpal Malik-Jakhar. The couple gave birth to a male child and named him Rajmal. By blood the child was Rajmal Sangwan-Dahia-Malik-Jakhar
• Over the time (say another 25 years) Sita Boora-Hooda-Punia-Sheoran got married to Rajmal Sangwan-Dahia-Malik-Jakhar and gave birth to a daughter and named her Khajani. By blood the girl was Khajani Boora-Hooda-Punia-Sheoran-Sangwan-Dahia-Malik-Jakhar. Around the same period of time there was one male child born to other parents with different grand parents and different great grand parents and was named by blood as Harphool Rana-Fogat-Deshwal-Gahlot-Kadian-Nain-Lohan-Jaglan.
• Khajani and Harphool were married and gave birth to sons and daughters. What will be the Gotra of their sons and daughter? It will be incredibly long but surely they will have their surname like, Rana-Fogat-Deshwal-Gahlot-Kadian-Nain-Lohan-Jaglan-Boora Hooda-Punia-Sheoran-Sangwan-Dahia-Malik-Jakhar. Thus third generation kids will have 16 surnames if they have to stick to blood sharing concepts
• Summarizing, by blood the first patriarch/matriarch must have had blood mix of at least two Gotra; one Gotra blood from his /her father and another from his/her mother. The next generation of that patriarch/matriarch, say after 25 years, will have blood mix from 4 Gotra, third generation, say after 50 years from the start, will have blood mix from 8 Gotra, 16 Gotras after 75 years,
• 32 Gotras after 100 years, 64 Gotras after 125 years, 128 Gotra after 150 years, 256 Gotras after 175 years and 512 Gotra blood after 200 years from start! Jat community must be in being for last 1000 years. That means blood of all Gotras has got mixed many time over. We can say that marriages are within same community. Purity of Gotra is a myth scientifically.
• In actual practice however we do not see such long surname as to indicate the blood mix of so many Gotras. It is simply because mother’s blood is not considered as thick as that of father. Progeny thus only add to their names the Gotra of father and not of mother simply because ours is a patriarchal society.
• But then it means that Gotra system blatantly ignore the sanctity of blood relation and scientific base. So the argument of scietific base does not hold true in Sahgotra marriage.BLOOD MIXING OF ALL GOTRAS MANY TIMES has saturated the Jat Community. We can Say now Marriages within same community have more potential of congenital diseases.
• PURUTY OF BLOOD OF ONE GOTRA IS A MYTH
• IT DOES NOT STAND THE SCUTINY OF SCIENCE
• R.S.DAHIYA
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