Certainly, much of the culture goes back to battles waged from the Assyrians to Alexander to the Mongol hordes.
It simply isn't like anything we know in the West.
Looks like it was a Hindi wedding ceremony, and the child brides were married off to teenagers.
At least it wasn't a 10 year old bride being forced to marry a 60 y.o. man.
Actually I’m reading the Cadfael mystery books and the one I just finished had an attempt to marry a ten year old. If the ceremony had been done properly the marriage would have been binding for life. This was in the early 12th century. I know its fiction but her research of 12 century England is pretty thorough. The marriage however was not to be consummated until after puberty.