Explanation:

Our understanding of the workings of rural society of 16th and 17th century does not come from those who worked the land, as peasants did not write about themselves. Our major source for the agrarian history of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries are chronicles and documents from the Mughal court.
preferred. In anuloma type of marriage a member of a higher caste could take unto himself a wife or wives of the lower castes in addition to one of his own caste. The Dhatmastitras give the names of the mixed castes that arose not only as a result of anuloma marriages but also those which arose as a result of the pratiloma marriages which were prohibited. In the pratiloma marriages the husband's caste was lower than that of the wife. According to the Apastamba Dharmasatra, the members of the three high castes namely brAhmanas, itatriyas and vaigyas are respectively born as Chandala, Pukkasa and Vena in the next birth if they commit theft in this birth. BaudhAyana thinks that all these castes came into existence as a result of mixed marriages. According to the Vasistha Dharma-sutra" the children of a