Showing papers on "Love marriage published in 2002"

Love and the Law: Love-Marriage in Delhi

Abstract: In the late 1860s, the colonial state received a petition signed by Keshub Chandra Sen of the Brahmo Samaj to legislate for marriages amongst their members, such that they could freely marry according to their ‘rites of conscience’. Paying little attention to the specific demands and circumstances of the Keshubite petition, the Governor General's Legislative Council began to consider the introduction of a civil marriage law for all Indians, so that those choosing to dissent from the religious practices of their marriage rites could find state sanction for their acts even if they were disowned by their families, castes or ethno-religious communities. The debate that followed the publication of this intention, presented ‘native’ society in a state of anxious turmoil, eager to represent itself as both morally and culturally superior in matters of marriage and kinship relations as opposed to the degenerate ‘Europeans’. Using archival petitions from Indians appealing against the legislation of the first civil marriage law in the late nineteenth century (‘Act III of 1872’), in this paper I detail some of the ways in which love-marriage couples have historically come to inhabit a social space of extreme moral ambivalence. Despite the enormous significance of this nineteenth-century debate, as well as the importance of civil marriage legislation in a country with contradictory and conflicting ‘personal laws’, there has been virtually no academic work (historical or anthropological) that addresses the import of ‘Act III of 1872’ and its legacy to post-independence India. However, the law for civil marriage was nonetheless passed (albeit in a truncated form), thus opening up a theoretical space within which any two Indians could legitimately marry out of choice and love rather than by the dictates of ‘birth’.

Arranged or love marriage? That is the question

Abstract: Although arranged and love marriages have been around for a long time there seems to be no comparative analyses in the economics literature of the relative merits of one or the other kind of marriage As such, the purpose of this note is to conduct a theoretical inquiry into the desirability of arranged versus love marriages A simple model of decision making in a dynamic and stochastic setting is analysed and it is shown that the decision to have an arranged or a love marriage depends on a comparison of the expected amount of time it takes the agent's well-wishers to find a spouse with the expected total time it takes this agent to find a spouse by himself or herself

Arranged or Love Marriage? That is the Question

Abstract: Although arranged and love marriages have been around for a long time, to the best of our knowledge, there are no comparative analyses in the economics literature of the relative merits of one or the other kind of marriage. As such, the purpose of this note is to conduct a theoretical inquiry into the desirability of arranged versus love marriages. We analyze a simple model of decision making in a dynamic and stochastic setting and show that the decision to have an arranged or a love marriage depends on a comparison of the expected amount of time it takes the agent's well-wishers to find a spouse with the expected total time it takes this agent to find a spouse by himself or herself.

Growth: What's Love Got to do with It? ⁄

Abstract: This paper argues that love, as opposed to arranged, marriage promotes growth. Men pay for marriage. However, an important dierence between love and arrange marriage is who makes and receives the payment. Under love marriage, typically the groom pays his wife, while under arranged marriage, the groom (or his father) pays the bride’s father. Clearly, love marriage directs resources from the father of the bride to the bride. Moreover, love marriage may redistribute resources from the father to the son. If young (v. old) and women (v. men) are more prone to save or invest in the human capital of children, then love marriage promotes physical or human capital accumulation. We propose that the adoption and adherence to love marriage in Europe, starting in the 7th century at the instigation of the Church, may be one reason why Europe surged ahead of other advanced pre-industrial societies, notably India and China, around A.D. 1500. “Europe was lucky, but luck is only a beginning. Anyone who looked at the world, say a thousand years ago, would never have predicted great things for this protrusion at the western end of the Eurasian landmass that we call the continent of Europe. In terms popular among today’s new economic historians, the probability at that point of European global dominance was somewhere around zero. Five hundred years later, it was getting close to one.” Landes [1999]:29.

Thematic guide to British poetry

Abstract: Introduction Themes Active and Contemplative Lives Art, Imagination, Inspiration Beauty Carpe Diem Christmas Poems Death Death of the Young Duty Fame and Ambition Family Relations Freedom and Captivity The Golden Mean Immortality Industrialism and the City Innocence and Experience Love Marriage Music Nature and Country Life Old Age Patriotism Politics and Human Rights Pride and Vanity Rebellion and Conformity Regret, Consolation, and Melancholy Religion Sleep Time and Change War Appendix: Biographical Sketches Bibliography Title Index Subject Index Author Index.