Polygamy = 1 man with 2 or more wives.
Polyandry = 1 woman with 2 or more husbands.
In India an early example of polyandry can be found in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, in which Draupadi, daughter of the king of Panchala, is married to five brothers. Polyandry was mainly prevalent in the Kinnaur Region, a part of Himachal in India which is close to the Tibet or currently the Indo-China border. Apart from Kinnaur, polyandry was practised in South India among theTodas tribes of Nilgiris, Nairs ofTravancore. While polyandrous unions have disappeared from the traditions of many of the groups and tribes, it is still practiced by some Paharis, especially in the Jaunsar-Bawar region in Northern India. Recent years have seen the rise in fraternal polyandry in the agrarian societies in Malwa region of Punjab to avoid division of farming land.