HINDU MARRIAGES IN UGANDA. HINDU MARRIAGE Many Hindus see marriage as a lifelong sacred ceremony that binds a man and a woman together. Marriage is viewed by Hindus as a right place to enjoy sexual pleasures which is allowed as part of the life aim of Karma. Under both the Hindu and the English systems of law marriage was formerly a sacrament and, therefore, indissoluble, but the nature of the marriage was different in that, while an English marriage was a voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, a Hindu marriage was a gift of the bride by her father to her husband. According to Hindu religious belief the marriage subsisted not only during the life time of the spouses but also in. subsequent "existences; a Hindu widow was not allowed to remarry, as her previous marriage was; not dissolved the death of her husband. For the purposes of Hindu marriage and divorce Act chapter 250 the following persons are hindus; Buddhists, Jains