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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