This notion of a blended marriage contradicts much of the literature concerning Indian marriage practices, which generally constructs arranged marriage and love marriage as mutually exclusive phenomena. In this testimonial from, India's largest matrimonial website, Shruti describes a marriage that blurs the line between Indian traditions of arranged marriage and love marriage. We both thank for bringing us into each other's lives. We are loving every moment of married life. We are now happily married and living in Chicago. The next day we exchanged rings and our families fixed the date of our marriage. He said that he fell in love with me at first sight. He came to California to meet me for the first time. He was living in Chicago and I was in Sacramento. Then we told our parents about each other. We started emailing and then talking on the phone. I sent him an interest and he gladly accepted. Keywords: Indian diaspora,, matrimonial websites, marriage, romantic love, arranged love marriage 208 testimonials were thematically analysed the findings indicate that Uberoi's (1998, 2006) notion of arranged love marriage is prevalent within the narratives examined. Specifically, data obtained from suggest that the emergence of an amalgamated practice, 'arranged love marriage', is dominant within representations of marriage on the website. However, this article argues that a shift is occurring in the way that marriage is conceptualised by women in the Indian diaspora. The literature concerning Indian marriage practices tends to regard arranged marriage and love marriage as mutually exclusive. This article investigates how women in the Indian diaspora articulate ideas of love and marriage through testimonials published on. By Nonie Tuxen, School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies and School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
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