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However modern individualism has been a threat to the family collective unit, and those living in modern joint families find themselves feeling confined or captive under the watch of too many family members. In a traditional joint Hindu family, there is a subservient relationship between the wives of the brothers: the patriarch's wife is ...
With the expanding social reform and female emancipation that accompanied economic and literacy growth after independence, many commentators predicted the gradual demise of arranged marriages in India, and the inexorable rise of so-called "love marriages" (i.e. where the initial contact with potential spouses does not involve the parents or family members). [2]
Fraternal polyandry is a way for Tibetans to avoid having to build multiple houses every time a male in the family marries. One wife married to many brothers allows for less resources to be used on one brother and his one wife. Polyandry is also a way for Tibetans to not have to marry non-Tibetans whilst they are settled in India. [34]
The three goals of marriage include allowing a husband and a wife to fulfil their dharma, bearing progeny (praja), and experiencing pleasure (rati). Sexual intercourse between a husband and wife is regarded to be important in order to produce children, but is the least desirable purpose of marriage in traditional Hindu schools of thought. [3]
Therefore, since Hinduism is the primary practiced religion in India, the joint-family system constitutes the majority of family structures in India. [3] The joint-family system is described as follows: “In structure, it comprises a married man, his father, his grandfather and his collaterals within three generations.
Indian Hindu bride and groom on wedding day. A Vedic sage emphasized that the basis of a happy and fulfilling married life is the presence of unity, intimacy and love between a husband and wife physically, mentally and spiritually. Hence the wife is considered to be the Ardhangani of the husband as per Hindu tradition. Marriage is not for self ...
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The ritual started with the matching of the horoscope of the girl with the boy and after the matching information was given to the Karanavan (who was the leader of the Nair joint family) of the boy’s family. Fawcett describes a related ritual, the Kettu Kalyanam, in 1905, as described below.