Gender And Sophistication: Girls In Indian Trade, 1890 1990 Fashionable Asian Studies

Indian Matchmaking gave the non-South Asian viewer a glimpse into the first step of organized marriages inside Indian households both in India and abroad—that of the matchmaker. The potential brides and grooms on the present all got here from center to upper-middle class financial backgrounds, primarily Hindus—from attorneys to entrepreneurs to diamond merchants to high…