It's practiced in full throttle, you will never see this gone atleast for another 270 years....... A brahmin girl father had slapped me just because she asked for raw mango in childhood from me which I had two, and I gave her one even though I didn't want to but only because I found her beautiful and liked her, I belong to a backward caste called "kurmi" which is mainly engaged in agriculture and is landowning caste but not as previleged as Brahmins, that traumatized me, Even though I have gotten beaten on many occasions by parents that slap hurts me most, I haven't talked to her till now again and parents have shifted to city.... Upper caste men/women don't marry lower caste as they fear honor killing(in case of women or social exclusion) and men don't do it because they think their value will be degraded...