Learning to Love: Arranged Marriages and the British Indian Diaspora

Learning to Love challenges media and policy stereotypes of arranged marriages, revealing diverse practices and romantic love considerations. It highlights the British-Indian diaspora's ability to adapt and negotiate cultural norms, presenting a modern and progressive identity narrative.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2021
Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Learning to Love goes beyond the media and policy stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages, offering a rich and diverse array of everyday marriage narratives and trajectories. Through in-depth interviews and participant observations, the book highlights how considerations of romantic love are woven into traditional arranged marriage practices. It shows that 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 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 modern and progressive migrants, changing with the times and cultivating transnational forms of belonging.

Weight: 222g
Dimension: 153 x 228 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780813599632