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Matchmaking in Middle Class India - Beyond Arranged and Love Marriage (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Matchmaking in Middle Class India - Beyond Arranged and Love Marriage (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book is an extensive and thorough exploration of the ways in
which the middle class in India select their spouse. Using the
prism of matchmaking, this book critically unpacks the concept of
the 'modern' and traces the importance of moralities and values in
the making of middle class identities, by bringing to the fore
intersections and dynamics of caste, class, gender, and
neoliberalism. The author discusses a range of issues: romantic
relationships among youth, use of online technology and of
professional services like matrimonial agencies and detective
agencies, encounters of love and heartbreak, impact of experiences
of pain and humiliation on spouse-selection, and the involvement of
family in matchmaking. Based on this comprehensive account, she
elucidates how the categories of 'love' and 'arranged' marriages
fall short of explaining, in its entirety and essence, the
contemporary process of spouse-selection in urban India. Though the
ethnographic research has been conducted in India, this book is of
relevance to social scientists studying matchmaking practices,
youth cultures, modernity and the middle class in other societies,
particularly in parts of Asia. While being based on thorough
scholarship, the book is written in accessible language to appeal
to a larger audience.
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