MARRIAGE
Indians do not permit inter-religious marriages. Marriages are arranged in India. Marriages are arranged in India by the elderly women of the family because they consider it an duty. Marriages are arranged in India because they see it as reinforcing the social, economic, geographic, and the historic significance of India. Prakasa states that arranged marriages serve six purposes. (1) is to help maintain the social satisfaction system in the society, (2) gives parents control, over family members, (3) continuing the ancestral lineage, (4) provides an opportunity to strengthen the kinship group, (5) extending of family property and (6) enables the elders to preserve the principle of endogamy. Arranged marriages started as a way of uniting and maintaining upper caste families. Then it moved down to lower classes and was used for the same purpose. Some Indians used to arrange cousins to be married because they now of their background and their family history because that is......
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