Crossing Caste Boundaries in the Modern Indian Marriage Market

Ahuja, Amit; Ostermann, Susan L.

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“…Caste bias and stereotyped gender roles reign rampant in these advertisements. Ahuja and Ostermann (2015) conducted detailed research about whether or not the prospective families are willing to transcend their caste boundaries. The study found that in the urban, Indian, middle-class marriage market, a significant proportion of participants and their families is willing to consider crossing caste boundaries if it allows them to upgrade their caste or status.…”

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Tradition–Technology Wedlock: The Paradoxical Modernisation of Matrimony

Sen

2020

South Asian Survey

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The advent of online matrimony ushered in a new era of matchmaking in the wake of globalisation. This paper aims to examine the impact of globalisation on Hindu–Bengali matrimony. The study attempts to find out the impact of online matrimony on marriages in Kolkata. On the basis of personal interviews and content analysis of advertisements in newspapers and online matrimonial websites, the study shows the impact of globalisation on the institution of marriage. The paper argues that globalisation has not made potential changes in the process of selection of prospective brides and grooms. The newspapers and online portals function as the twin matchmakers in contemporary Kolkata, with little difference from the way traditional matchmakers used to work. The paper examines the fate and impact of technology when introduced in deeply entrenched traditional social institutions. The increase in the pool of selection of mates has reinforced patriarchal ties with globalisation adjusting itself in a tradition-bound society, putting tradition and technology in a curious and cumbersome paradox.

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Section: Caste Bias and Gendered Notions In Newspaper Matrimonialmentioning

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Tradition–Technology Wedlock: The Paradoxical Modernisation of Matrimony

Sen

2020

South Asian Survey

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“…This approach constitutes a fundamental challenge to caste as a category based on endogamy and to the rules restricting contact across caste boundaries. To move caste towards the notion of occupation and to encourage intermarriage is, in a sense, to abolish caste itself (Ahuja 2015).…”

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Leaving Hinduism

Cavallin

2020

Handbook of Leaving Religion

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“…However, studies suggest that today in Indian society we can see inter-caste marriages. Though mostly it is part of the city/urban culture, and they constitute a minor proportion of the total number of marriages (Ahuja and Ostermann, 2016; Das et al, 2011; Goli et al, 2013; Trigunayat, 2014). It is said that those who defied inter-caste marriage by violating the social norm had to face the consequences in terms of violence, social boycott, family boycott, and death of the boys and girls (honor killing) (Das et al, 2011).…”

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“…It is said that those who defied inter-caste marriage by violating the social norm had to face the consequences in terms of violence, social boycott, family boycott, and death of the boys and girls (honor killing) (Das et al, 2011). Research suggests a higher prevalence of inter-caste marriage among lower caste women (Ahuja and Ostermann, 2016) because interest in inter-caste marriage is rooted in a desire for upward mobility and governed by the principle of exchange (Ahuja and Ostermann, 2016). It is also substantiated by the findings that lower caste people in rural North India evaluate their lives to be worse than higher caste people and this difference is not explained by poverty (Spears, 2016).…”

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Discovering the Saga of Inter-caste Marriage in India

Narzary

Ladusingh

2019

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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In India marrying across the caste kindles strong community resentment, leading to the extent of honor killing, yet few couples dare to defy this stringent social norm. Analysis of large-scale survey (India Human Development Survey 2011–12) data exhibits an inconsequential rise in this social incongruity since 1951 to attain 4.5% in 2012. It is most prevalent in the northeastern region (11.6%), but least prevalent in caste-ridden central India (1.8%). Multi-variate statistics exhibit that if women are allowed to choose their life-partner, caste takes a rear-seat in marriage contemplation. It is quite prominent among the women who selected the husband by themselves and knew the husband at least one year before the marriage. Contrary to general notion, education is not able to promote inter-caste marriage. Odds of inter-caste marriage taking place in Dalit (lowest social standing) households is much lesser than the higher caste. Resilient targeted efforts are necessary to promote inter-caste marriage, which may loosen the noose of the caste system in India.

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Crossing Caste Boundaries in the Modern Indian Marriage Market

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Tradition–Technology Wedlock: The Paradoxical Modernisation of Matrimony

Tradition–Technology Wedlock: The Paradoxical Modernisation of Matrimony

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Discovering the Saga of Inter-caste Marriage in India

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