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Analyse the role of market and modern forces in understanding the changing trends in marriage systems in India.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Market forces have not dissolved arranged marriage in India; they have re-equipped it. The question is which elements have been commodified — search, display, payment, mobility — and which absorb the market without yielding. That separates the means of marriage, which have changed radically, from its rule, which has not.

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