Toshali Sands

Social Life

People in Orissa, whether rural or urban, live in families. Those who have to stay away from family at their places of work ,in towns or industrial areas usually come to spend their holidays in their village homes. Marriage is usually monogamous among all the sects. When a youngman or woman is of marriageable age, it is usually the duty of the parents to arrange for the marriage.

The Muslims and the Christians follow their own traditional customs. Intercaste marriages are taking place in recent times, but are limited in number. Certain moral code and ethics are commonly accepted in the Orissan society in respect of social conduct. Drinking is considered a vice and as such shameful in the households or villages. For the tribal people, however it is not a vice. Sexual immorality is hated all over the state. Beef is a taboo to the Hindus as pork to the Muslims.