Indian Marriage In Modern, Urban, Educated Society
K. N. Rao · Vani Publications
Modern education, economic independence and western Influence, where marriage is a ruined Institution and divorce rates are very high, have created a crisis in modern areas. This is an excellent study based on indepth research into such problems. It helps one to distinguish between superstitions spread by astrologers and irrational beliefs Issuing out of wrong social traditions and conventions on the one hand and a rational and sane approach to the problem. KN Rao Indian marriages in urban Deepak Bisaria The fact to be accepted first of all in the fast changing Hindu society is that the educated Hindu girl has no inclination to fit herself into the role of a traditional house keeping wife, mothering children, looking after kitchen. Sex for some of the modern (marriageable) girl is not what begins after marriage because she knows about It. She is acquainted with it and has the experience also. How will she fit into traditional Hindu marriage which is a sacrament, a sacred vow to succeed as a housewife? She is economically independent and is legally protected by the new Indian laws. She knows it. The apparent radical change in the marital scene is that for the career minded modern girl marriage definitely has secondary consideration. The marriageable young man need not debate it but he must accept it as a fact of life and, adjust. What is then a Hindu marriage - does it fit Into one of the well known traditional eight-fold classification of Brahma, Daiva, Arsha, Prajapatya, Asur, Gandharva, Rakshas, Palshach or is it a confused combination of features taken from different types? There is and has been an urgent need to look at marriage which involves at least forty crore Indians, astrologically for modern Indian urban society. Though for a majority of Hindu girls marriage is a sacrament and is successful, we still cannot ignore the growing number of divorce cases and other problems arising out of modern marriages. The author, Deepak Bisaria has produced a brilliant study of various facets of such disturbed marriages which astrologers and parents along with modern young men and women should keep in mind to overcome what may not be Insurmountable difficulty. It is a timely research that has been done for the first time in India on Indian marriage by a serious minded astrologer.
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