Learning to Love
Arranged Marriages and the British Indian Diaspora
1st Edition
Published on 19. March 2021
155 pages
978-0-8135-9967-0 (ISBN)
Description
Learning to Love moves beyond the media and policy stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations, this book assembles a rich and diverse array of everyday marriage narratives and trajectories and highlights how considerations of romantic love are woven into traditional arranged marriage practices. It shows that far from being a homogeneous tradition, arranged marriages involve a variety of different matchmaking practices where each family tailors its own cut-and-paste version of British-Indian arranged marriages to suit modern identities and ambitions. Pande argues that instead of being wedded to traditions, people in the British-Indian diaspora have skillfully adapted and negotiated arranged marriage cultural norms to carve out an identity narrative that portrays them as "e,modern and progressive migrants"e,-ones who are changing with the times and cultivating transnational forms of belonging.
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Content
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series Foreword \ by Péter Berta
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1. The Politics of Marriage and Migration in Postcolonial Britain
- 2. Becoming Modern and British: Enacting Citizenship through Arranged Marriages
- 3. Continuing Traditions as a Matter of Arrangement
- 4. Becoming a "Suitable Boy" and a "Good Girl"
- 5. Learning to Love
- 6. The Ties That Bind: Marriage, Belonging, and Identity
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Index
- About the Author
