The khaps are an informal grouping of elders from the same clan and ‘gotra’, whose rough justice demands obeisance from the villagers they lord over. Their coercive diktats -- most recently on annulling marriages within the same gotra, and imposing exile and social boycotts on those who defy them -- are a direct affront to the state.
This kind of nonsense really gets on my nerves!!!! Who the bloody hell puts these numpties into any position of power that they can do things like this?!? I had a bit of a "moment" when on my trek and wrote a 3 page rant about being able to exercise the freedom of expression and every individual having the right to be themselves without prejudice or persecution, I may put that up into a blog post in the near future. Boy did I feel good once I'd written it all down!! 
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