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Hindu
marriage customs and rituals involve such practices as arranged marriage
and checking horoscopes for compatibility. Often, Westerners can gain a better
perspective on what marriage means to them by studying marriage practices in other
cultures. In ancient India, princesses got to choose their husbands from a group of
suitors in a ritual known as a svayamvara, or "self-choice."
Often the suitors had to demonstrate their prowess by feats of valor. Nowadays
Hindu feminists and others are trying to reconfigure this ancient practice for modern
application!
Web Resources: Popular
Matrimonial Ads in
The Hindu (major Indian newspaper)
BharatMatrimony.com
Shaadi.com
JeevanSathi
Dowry: the Laws, the Stats, and Reform (IndiaTogether)
Westerners Take
to Hindu Weddings (BBC)
Web Resources: Scholarly
Arranged Marriages,
Matchmakers, and Dowries in India (Emory Univ.)
Divorce in India
(Emory Univ.)
The Hindu Marriage Act (1955)
See also: Women in Hinduism.
Books and Articles
Archer, William G. 1985. Songs for the Bride: Wedding Rites of Rural India. Edited by Barbara Stoler Miller, and Mildred Archer. New York: Columbia University Press
Babb, Lawrence A. 1975. The Divine Hierarchy: Popular Hinduism in Central India. New York: Columbia University Press.
Basu, Monmayee. 2000. Hindu Women and Marriage Law: From Sacrament to Contract. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bénéď, Véronique. 1995. To Give or Not to Give: From Brideprice to Dowry in Maharashtra. Pondichery : Institut français de Pondichery.
Couture, Andre. 1992. "Marriage and a Rite of Passage in World Religions." Trans. by Shaun Grovenlock. Ecumenism 108 (Dec.): 15-21.
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. 1995. Arranged Marriage: Stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. New York : Anchor Books.
Gupta, Giri Raj, ed. 1971. Family and Social Change in Modern India. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press.
Harlan, Lindsey and Paul Courtright, eds. 1994. From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
Fruzzetti, Lina M. 1982. The Gift of a Virgin: Women, Marriage, and Ritual in a Bengali Society. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press.
Leslie, I. Julia. 1989. The Perfect Wife: The Orthodox Hindu Woman according to the Stridharmapaddhati of Tryambakayajvan. New York: Oxford University Press.
Leslie, I. Julia, ed. 1991. Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press.
Medora, Nilufer P. 2003. "Mate Selection in Contemporary India: Love Marriages Versus Arranged Marriages." In Mate Selection Across Cultures, ed. by Reann R. Hamon and Bron B. Ingoldsby. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. [Copley: HQ801 .M236 2003]
Mehta, Dina. 1994. "Marriages are Made in Heaven." In Miss Menon Did Not Believe in Magic. New Delhi: Rupa & Co. [short story]
Meister, Michael W., ed. 1995. Cooking for the Gods: The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal. Newark, N.J.: The Newark Museum.
Moreno, Manuel. 1988. "A Bride for Raman: Are Marriages Made in Heaven?" Natural History (3): 7-10.
Östör, Ákos, Lina Fruzzetti, and Steve Barnett, eds. 1992. Concepts of Person: Kinship, Caste, and Marriage in India. Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press.
Pandey, Rajbali. 1969. Hindu Samskaras: Socio-Religious Study of the Hindu Sacraments. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
Parpola, Asko and Sirpa Tenhunen, eds. 1998. Changing Patters of Family and Kinship in South Asia. Studia Orientalia, Vol. 84. Helsinki: The Finnish Oriental Society.
Pashupathi, Monisha. "Arranged Marriages: What's Love Got to Do With It?" In Inside the American Couple: New Thinking/New Challenges, ed. by Marilyn Yalom and Laura L. Carstensen, 211-235. [Copley: HQ801 .I67 2002 (ebrary)]
Reddy, Narayan. 1978. Marriages in India. Gurgaon: The Academic Press.
Roy, Manisha. 1992. Bengali Women. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. [Has a very good chapter on marriage.]
Sarma, Bhaiyaram. 1993. The Vivaha: The Hindu Marriage Samskaras. Translated by R.C. Prasad. 1st ed. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers.
Sharma, Arvind. 1985. "Marriage in the Hindu Religious Tradition." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 22 (Winter): 48ff.
Smart, Ninian. 1995. "Marriage in the World's Religions." Dialogue and Alliance 9 (Spr-Sum): 75-84.
Sinha, S. N.. 1992. The History of Marriage and Prostitution, Vedas to Vatsyayana. New Delhi : Khama Publishers.
Swidler, Arlene, ed. 1985. "Marriage in the World Religions." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 22, no. 1 (Winter): 1-112. Entire issue devoted to theme of marriage in world religions, w. articles on Judaism, Greek Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.
Veen, Klaas W. van der. 1972. I Give Thee My Daughter: A Study of Marriage and Hierarchy Among the Anavil Brahmans of South Gujarat. Translated from the Dutch Nanette Jockin. Assen: Van Gorcum.
Videos
Arranged Marriages. 2001. Coproduced by Dominant 7 and La Cinquiéme ; a film by Carol Equer-Hamy. New York: Filmakers Library. Videocassette. [Copley: HQ669 .A77 2001]
Marriages in Heaven. 2000. Producer, Annada Rathi. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Extension, Center for Media and Independent Learning. Videocassette. [Copley: GT2776 .M37 2000]
Monsoon Wedding. 2002. Directed by Mira Nair. Universal Studios. DVD. [Copley: PN1997.I5 M67 2002]
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