![]() ![]() The dimension we focus on in this paper relates to women's transition into marriage. Women's limited intra-household decision-making power has several dimensions: geographic, cultural, economic, and demographic. Education is associated with greater autonomy in partner choice decision but it most strongly associated with parent arranged marriages with consent. Results from multinomial regression analysis confirm that the trend towards parent arranged marriages with the daughter’s consent has been persistent over time. Contrary to our hypothesis, the largest difference between educated and their less educated counterparts is not with respect to parent-arranged and self-arranged marriages rather it is between parent arranged marriages with no participation (22 percentage points) and parent arranged marriages with consent (36 percentage points). Share of jointly arranged and self-arranged marriages have remained somewhat similar across birth cohorts. There has been an almost equal 5 percentage point increase in parent-arranged marriages in which daughters have participated. Descriptive statistics indicate that parent-arranged marriages in which the daughter has no participation have declined 5 percentage points from the oldest to the youngest cohort. We distinguish between four marriage types- parent arranged marriage with no participation, parent arranged marriage with participation, jointly arranged marriage and self- arranged marriage. In particular, we examine (1) if women of recent cohorts (born around 1980) are less likely to report arranged marriages than women of older cohorts (born around 1956) and (2) if educated women are less likely to report arranged marriages than their less educated counterparts. It has strongly managed to grip its relevance in the Indian marital community.Using a very unique data set (India Human Development Survey, 2005), this paper examines if self-arranged marriages (or love marriages) have replaced parent-arranged marriages as the dominant form of marriage in India. ![]() Love marriages are on the rise but arranged marriages still continue to dominate the game. Families are proceeding towards understanding their children’s wants and decisions of spending their life with the one they love. ![]() However, with each passing day, a number of stories turn up which portray love marriages in a positive light. To date, in many parts of the country, elders don’t consider love marriage to be legitimate and brand it as an ‘immature, hasty’ decision that the couple will come to regret one day. Even if both the couples are successful in their marriages, the couples with arranged marriage are praised more for their excellent bonding. Lowly portrayal of love marriage in Indian subcontext However, a major discrimination that covers arranged and love marriages is that people who opt for the latter are shown in poor light as compared to ones who have had an arranged marriage. ![]() The only downside to this is that partners do not know each other nor do they love each other before the marriage well, most of the times. Arranged marriages provide equal stature, financial stability, cultural identity and the same opinions among partners and families, so, there is very less chance of disputes. ![]()
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