Dude I'm sorry but if you're Indian, then surely you're not willing to just declare that India is homogenous right? You surely know better?

The small sub sect we come from is from a tiny village. There aren't a lot of us. Our customs, rituals are very unique and there's not many left - our ancestral village where our family God has a temple is fairly remote and all but empty. Bad drought has left our sect in a pretty fucking sad state.

If I don't become a priest, there's maybe like 4-5 other men MAYBE who can become priests and continue a bloodline, a culture , that has existed for hundreds of years.

India isn't some homogenous country, and neither is my caste. There are so many subcultures , sub castes, family blood lines , etc.

Regardless, no context excuses the guy behaving like an ass towards the man his daughter has chosen, who loves her and treats her well. It's pathetic, wrong behavior.

There are ALWAYS reasons to be closed minded. Always. Doesn't make them right, certainly not when it's making someone who legitimately wants to try, who makes your daughter happy ... Feel sad and uncomfortable.

The op isn't an asshole, he's not done anything bad or wrong. Implying that somehow he's responsible for this dissolution of a bloodline , as many of the comments are suggesting, is just silly.

His wife made her choice as a full grown adult. He treats her well, they love each other. That's that.

I get where the dad is coming from but this consistently shitty behavior is unacceptable.

End of the day as I said ,pretty much EVERY culture wants to be insular. Jews were slaughtered in the holocaust - would it be ok for Jewish parents to completely forbid their children from marrying non Jews shortly thereafter? While we may empathize , treating your kids as some notches on the bloodline is not ok. It's also not ok to put cultural purity over the desires of living breathing people whose desires and wants may simply not align with yours.