Marriage
The Gift of Lah-Suk: The Traditional Practice of the Konyak Tribe of the Tobu Area
By: AMO B. KONYAK, LUCY ZEHOL – As the title indicates, the present work is to analyze and understand the traditional practice of gift-giving among the Konyak of the Tobu area. In recent years, many changes have taken place in the social and cultural front that resulted in the giving up of traditional practices such…
Symbolic Inequalities in Marriage Ceremonies among the Muslims of Kashmir: Situating Social Class
By: MOHMAD SALEEM JAHANGIR, SHAMEEM AHAMAD GANAYEE – Marriage is a universal social institution and is embedded in our social fabric in such a way that we don’t have a second thought about not marrying, especially among the social actors of a religious family. Researchers, here in the field of marriage only focused on the…
Changing Trends of Muslim Marriage in Contemporary Kashmir: A Sociological Study
By: JAN KHUSHBOO, HUSSAIN MANZOOR – Marriage is one of the universal social institution but it’s very difficult process to live together forever when their culture and mindset is different. But over the past several decades lot of changes has been taken place in Muslim marriage in Kashmir. The objective of the research is to…
Labour Market Participation and Marital Violence against Women in Rural Bangladesh: Men Reports
By: RIPON KUMAR SARKAR, K.M. RABIUL KARIM – The main objective of this research was to examine the impact of women’s employment on marital violence in rural Bangladesh. The present study findings reveales that different factors are related to the association between women’s labour market participation and marital violence. For example, women’s age, women’s education,…
Family and Marriage among the Tai Khamti of Arunachal Pradesh: A Study on Social Changes and Continuity
By: HEEROCK JYOTI BARUAH – The North-Eastern region of the Indian sub-continent marks the amalgamation of populations and cultures belonging to different ethnic communities that reflect location-specific distinct ways of life but, tend to co-exist peacefully preserving their unique traditions. The state of Arunachal Pradesh shelters a total of twenty-six major tribes and around a…