text: The chance of having any marital tie up with the big group became out of the question, many girls and men of the small group avoided getting married in the next 60 years of the unjustifiable division (as they avoided marrying in the other castes and marrying in the own small section was not possible due to likely incestuous alliances), which shrank their population further to only around the 300 from the 400, which was there at the time of the division.