> Unless there are thousands of gotras, it must be very common for a prospective bride and groom to overlap. The brahmin communities have a handful of gothras

> Unless there are thousands of gotras, it must be very common for a prospective bride and groom to overlap. The brahmin communities have a handful of gothras as I understand it (7 or 8, depending on who you ask). The relationship matrix is resolved by only tracking a single side of the family tree and making first cousins who are able to marry each other without complication on this topic. So it doesn't directly fix the inbreeding within insular communities, though that was its intention. My father-in-law spent quite some time investigating this, as my clan is matrilineal in ancestry (still very patriarchal, just brother-sister family unit instead of husband-wife) with a history of cross-marriages from patrilineal men for treaties/allies. Completely pointless pedigree certificate, felt like I was being picked for breeding instead of an equal partnership. A dive into this sort of discrimination almost left me wondering why something with political eugenics didn't come out of India. Fears which I still have for the 2040s seeing the CAA and NRC.