In 1854, the Government of Nepal passed the "Muluki Ain" civil code commissioned by Jung Bahadur Rana.
[4][7][8][9] In 2009, the Government of Nepal announced that it would give a sum of रू100,000 Nepalese rupees (roughly US$1,350[10]) away to couples who have an inter-caste marriage.
Honor killings due to intercaste marriages have been extensively reported by Pakistani media agencies.
[12] Intercaste marriages in diaspora communities of people of South Asian descent, such as those in United Kingdom, are reported to be not prevalent.
[15][16] Guru Amar Das was a proponent of inter-caste marriage, going against the social norms in Punjabi society at the time.