Mate selection in contemporary India: Love marriages versus arranged marriages

Mate Selection Across Cultures

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 209-230

  Medora, Nilufer P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452204628.n12     Document Type: Chapter

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