Purpose
As part of the Hindu Code Bill, the Hindu Marriage Act was enacted in 1955 by the Indian parliament. It is an Act to amend and codify the marriage law among Hindus. Its purpose was to regulate personal life among Hindus, especially the institution of marriage, its validity, conditions for invalidity and applicability.
"When a woman born in a scheduled caste or a scheduled tribe marries to a person belonging to a forward caste, her caste by birth does not change by virtue of the marriage. A person born as a member of a scheduled caste or a scheduled tribe has to suffer from disadvantages, disabilities and indignities only by virtue of belonging to the particular caste which he or she acquires involuntarily on birth. The suffering of such a person by virtue of caste is not wiped out by a marriage with the person belonging to a forward caste. The label attached to a person born into a scheduled caste or a scheduled tribe continues not withstanding the marriage. No material has been placed before us by the applicant so as to point out that the caste of a person can be changed either by custom, usage, religious sanction or provision of law."
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