Beautiful and traditionally rich Indian Marriage Culture
The
marriage culture in Asia is totally different from other subcontinents such as
Australia, America, etc. In Asia, India is the biggest country and has diverse
cultures. This article will explain you about the Indian marriage culture that
how this culture is diversified and how different societies find themselves in
this culture. The Indian subcontinent has historically been home to a wide
variety of wedding systems. There are different communities are living in which
Hindus, Muslims, Christians and other communities are living and their marriage
culture is though similar but different in some aspects.
There are two basic type of marriage cultures in India, one is called arrange marriage and other type is called love marriages. In India, ratio of love marriages is higher than the arrange marriages in past and this difference is created by the Indian media which is spreading the awareness of independency to everyone.
Now we will talk on Indian marriage culture and basic types of marriages exist in mixed Indian cultures.
Indian marriage culture:
Arrange marriages:
Arranged marriages are one of the famous and traditional marriage types in Indian society and most of the Indian families whether they are Muslim or Hindus they love arrange marriages. Most of the Indian families like arrange marriages for their children because of their family traditions and respect they have in their own society.
The arrival or love marriages in the modern period:
With
the passage of time and awareness of women liberation and growing literacy rate,
lots of couples are getting married in love marriages in India. This prediction
of gradual demise of arranged marriages in India and rising ratio of so-called
"love marriages will hurt the Indian culture badly. However, in some cases love
marriages proved very successful and in most of the cases such marriages got
failed right after the beginning.
Self-arranged marriages
Self- arranged marriages are most popular marriages in Indian culture. In such type of marriages couples first meet with each other and then they get involved romantically to go through the process of an arranged marriage with that specific partner in mind. In self-arrange marriages usually couples spend their whole life with each other because their spent time with each in the past get closer them with each other and help them to understand the good and bad habits of each other before getting married.
Finding a matchmaker
In Indian marriage culture there is another character is involved called match maker. There are different words we use for match maker in India mean for Hindus they called him pundit and for Muslims and Christian they call it palmist or numerologist. When girl and boy have an identified love interest, then the parents often takes them to the match maker and orchestrate a match with that individual. This entire process is usually done with the help of a professional match maker who has a good social reputation for maintaining discreetness and negotiating successful weddings.
So, we can say that Indian marriage culture is very rich with different traditions. There are different minorities and majorities are living and they all respect each other’s tradition.