Even the so called love marriages in India generally happen with the approval of the parents, although their blessing may sometimes be reluctant. Among the overseas Indians, many marriages are still arranged with the assistance of the parents. Love marriages tend to be more common in the urban areas. This is often termed as "love marriage" in India. Although most marriages are arranged, some couples in India opt for selecting their partners by themselves, based on their direct interaction with those partners. In general both the parents and the young people feel that since they were older and wiser than their progeny, they would be able to find a suitable match for their children with more prudence than the latter. Arranged matches were made after taking into account factors such as age, height, personal values and tastes, the backgrounds of their families (wealth, social standing) and their castes and the astrological compatibility of the couples horoscopes. Even today an overwhelming majority of Indians in India have their marriages planned by their parents and other respected family-members. One of the major reason for low rate of divorce in India is a Arrange marriage. Arranged marriages have been the tradition in Indian society for centuries. Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains are governed by the Hindu Marriage Act 1955, Christians are governed by The Divorce Act 1869, Parsis by the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act 1936, Muslims by the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act 1939 and Inter-religious marriages are governed by The Special Marriage Act 1954. With the codification of this law, men and women both are equally eligible to seek divorce. In Hindu religion marriage is sacrament and not a contract, hence divorce was not recognised before the codification of the Hindu Marriage Act in 1955. The divorce rate in Indian villages is even lower in caparison to urban India. The rate of divorce in India was even low in the previous decade, where only 7.40 marriages out of 1,000 marriages were annulled. Statistics shows that only 1 out of 100 Indian marriages end up to a divorce which is quite low in comparison to America’s 50% of marriages turning into breakups. But it is more surprising to know that the divorce rate in India ranks lowest among all the countries of the world. June,2015: Acknowledging India’s respect for its culture and social ethics, one can guess that India enjoys a lowest divorce rate. Justice BN Srikrishna Report on Institutionalisation of Arbitration.
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