Matchmaking in Middle Class India

Parul Bhandari is Associate Professor, Sociology, at the Jindal Global Business School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. She completed her PhD from the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK. Thereafter, she held a Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, New Delhi), the South Asia research centre for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She was also a Visiting Scholar at St. Edmund’s College and the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK, and has held Guest Faculty positions at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics (DSE), University of Delhi and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Pre-Marital Intimacies.- 3. The Role of the Family.- 4. The New Middlemen.- 5. Construction of a Good Match.- 6. The Modern Couple: A Gendered Making.- 7. Love in the time of Middle Classness.- 8. Injuries of the Process.- 9. Conclusion: Marriage-Decisions Amongst the Middle class of Delhi.