Study on the Form, Purpose, and Origin of Hindu Marriage

Exploring the Influence of Cultural Factors on Hindu Marriage Customs

Abstract

In India, Vivaha or marriage, is quite possibly the most huge samaskara (soul changing experience) in Hinduism (Ramdya 2010 xi) and is considered fundamental for essentially everybody. With the developing economy, expanded instructive levels, the steady ascent in 'adoration match relationships' and realizing that marriage is normally an onetime chance, youthful Indian couples will embrace and reject certain components of the conventional Vedic wedding customs to find a way into the bigger plan of their life's significance and build up their own style. In this investigation, inside and out interviews were led with 20 wedded Indian Hindu ladies presently living in the United States to recognize and analyze the social factors that impacted the decisions that these ladies made in regards to the different Vedic wedding customs. Ann Swidler's (2004) tool compartment approach gives a hypothetical system to better comprehension of how culture functions, i.e., the unpredictable manners by which individuals utilize their assorted culture as collections to depict the importance of another culture that shapes the person's everyday lives. The talked with ladies distinguished the social variables as the impact of modernization and westernization in India the job of family and local area and the job of training which influenced their decisions. These three significant social elements assumed a critical part in their choices and conceptualizing their decisions in the custom choice cycle just as giving a way to more readily comprehend the changing parts of the Indian culture.