Arranged Marriage Analysis

Arranged marriage, as crazy as it sounds is a tradition in India. Many would argue against such tradition saying it immoral to force your child to marry someone whom they know nothing about. That’s exactly what Nanda went to go figure out on her ethnographic study in India, is arranged marriage as immoral as it sounds. Before beginning her ethnographic study Nanda already has a bias towards arranged marriages, saying “it was contrary to everything I believed about the importance of romantic love as the only basis of a happy marriage” (p.1). One of Nanda informants, Sita, explained to her the reason why she believes in arrange marriage because she herself is a way to inexperienced to decide who she should marry but her parents who have years of marriage to reference from to say who their daughter should marry. “This is why I must let my parents choose a boy for me. My marriage is too important to be arranged by such an inexperienced person as myself. In such matters, it is better to have my parents’ …show more content…
First off they will only consider someone from the same caste or general social class to marry you off too. The reputation of your family plays a huge role in what kind of partner you would be matched with. “The basic rule seems to be that a family’s reputation is most important. It is understood that matches would be arranged only within the same caste and general social class, although some crossing of sub-castes is permissible if the class positions of the bride’s and grooms families are similar”(p.2). Meaning if you from a wealthy family you would not be marrying anyone in a completely lower social status. It here that I have to disagree with arrange marriage again, by creating such a distinction between social classes, it decreases the number of matches out there for you. What if there was someone who was destined for you but the only problem was they were poor are even too rich to be with