Socio-Cultural Dimensions Of Marriage In Rural India

Socio-Cultural Dimensions Of Marriage In Rural IndiaThis book is an outcome of empiric study cross culturally carried out in early part of 1980? s in rural areas of South Central India viz, Andhra Pradesh. The theme of the study focusses on Nuptiality (Marriage) and particularly on age at marriage and its determinants, decision making on marriage, inter generational changes in marriage patterns etc. Although most aspects of this study cover both husbands and wife as a unit, the last but one chapter is

This Introduction

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All the facts have been collected to illustrate the reality of the lives of the people

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