About the Book: Hitched: The Modern Woman and Arranged Marriage
If you are an Indian woman and old enough to legally bear children, chances are
that an overweight relative has asked you, while fondly stroking their pot
belly, When am I going to eat at your wedding? The modern Indian womans attitude
to marriage and especially to arranged marriage is a confused one. As
traditional matchmaking methods and internet chat rooms come together to build
matrimonial websites, our parameters have changed, but the time-honoured
practice of arranged marriage sticks. Hitched explores in depth the
considerations matrimony should involve and the issues that can crop up at
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