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Essay On Caste Marriage

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CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION
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The institution of marriage was and is even today, closely related to the joint family, kinship and caste. The choice of brides and grooms, especially of brides, was influenced by caste, kinship and family goals.
Colleges are mostly co-educational in Pune and college campuses are meeting ground for the younger generation of males and females, who would otherwise be restricted from mixing freely. In India the college life is in fact, considered to be the spring time of freedom, a release from the tighter control of the society symbolized by the family.
Also it has been shown in this study that love has …show more content…

Passion- which encompasses drives connected to both limerence and sexual attraction. Commitment- which encompasses in the short term, the decision to remain with another, and in the long term, plans made with that other.
Most difficult challenge to convince the family for inter-caste marriage so that some respondents got married without informing the family because they were in fear of honours killing and suicidal attempts of parents. Some respondents said that the most dangerous challenge for them was going against the family. Boycott from the society and family was another challenge for them. Family was not in contact for a years that was also the big challenge for them.
Different factors of family opposition are because of societal pressure family are against for inter-caste marriage. Another dimension of family is parents cannot digest that their children are taking own decision of marriage. Parents always thinks that they are always right and children are wrong with special reference to marriage decision. And most important factor of opposition for inter-caste marriage is caste system and caste hierarchy as well as norms, custom and

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