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Learning to Love: Arranged Marriages and the British Indian Diaspora (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts) - Raksha Pande March 19, 2021 PDF  BOOKS
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Learning to Love: Arranged Marriages and the British Indian Diaspora (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts)
Author: Raksha Pande
Year: March 19, 2021
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.3 MB
Language: English

Learning to Love moves beyond the media and policy stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations, this book assembles a rich and diverse array of everyday marriage narratives and trajectories and highlights how considerations of romantic love are woven into traditional arranged marriage practices. It shows that far from being a homogeneous tradition, arranged marriages involve a variety of different matchmaking practices where each family tailors its own cut-and-paste version of British-Indian arranged marriages to suit modern identities and ambitions. Pande argues that instead of being wedded to traditions, people in the British-Indian diaspora have skillfully adapted and negotiated arranged marriage cultural norms to carve out an identity narrative that portrays them as and "modern and progressive migrants and "-ones who are changing with the times and cultivating transnational forms of belonging.

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