Rajo
Verma, 21, lives in a one-room shack with all five, sleeping with a different
one each night on a rota. The housewife has no idea which one is the father of
her toddler son. She said: “Initially it felt a bit awkward. But I don’t favour
one over the other.” Husband Guddu, 21 - the first to make her his bride
insisted: “We all have sex with her but I’m not jealous. We’re one big happy
family.” Guddu and Rajo got married in an arranged Hindu marriage four years
ago and he remains her only official spouse.But the custom in their village is
she had to take as husbands his brothers Bajju, 32, Sant Ram, 28, Gopal, 26,
and Dinesh - who married her last year when he turned 18. Eldest brother
Bajju said: “I consider her my wife and sleep with her like my brothers.” Rajo
cooks, cleans and looks after 18-month-old Jay while her hubbies go out to work
in Dehradun, northern India. She said of the ancient tradition, called
polyandry: “My mother was also married to three brothers so when I got wed I
knew I had to accept all of them as my husbands. “I sleep with
them in turn. We don’t have beds, just lots of blankets on the floor. “I get a lot more attention and love than
most wives.”
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