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Citations: Guile, Melanie. Culture in India. Heinemann Library, 2006.

Shores, Lori. Teens in India. Compass Point, 2008

--Nugent, Nicholas. World in View India. Heinemann, 1990.-------

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“Arranged Marriages, Matchmakers, and Dowries in India.” Postcolonial Studies, scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2014/06/20/arranged-marriages-matchmakers-and-dowries-in-india/.

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In India arranged marriages the brides would wear a sari or a lehenga.
A sari is a fabric made from silk or cloth that the brides would wear to a wedding.
A lehenga is a long skirt that is usually elaborately embroidered with beads.
The grooms in India wear a sherwani to weddings. A sherwani is a knee-length coat buttoning to the neck,

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Arranged marriages happen when a woman's parents persuade a man to marry their daughter. The groom is usually a few years older than the bride. The bride has very little say but still has some say on who she marries because she can refuse a match made for her. At the ceremony they threw rice and flower pedals.

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Women persuade the man into the marriage with a dowry. A dowry includes various things, not just money. It can include anything that can be valuable to the man and his family. The women gives the man's family the dowry after she comes to the family of the man. She lives with the man after she gets married.

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After the wedding the wife moved to the husbands house. They had to treat their husbands like gods. The wife worked a lot, If they were lucky the sass and sassur were nice to them. They got married before they were 18 and had kids at about 20. Just like in homeless bird if the bride became a widow, it would be very hard to find a new husnand.