Simiran Lalvani

The Moral Orders of Matchmaking Work: Matrimonial services and theTechnological Imperative in urban India

The digitisation of matrimonial matchmaking has implications for work but also subjective notions of family, femininity, parentchild relations, community boundaries which this work relies on. This paper is based on qualitative, ethnographic fieldwork with matchmakers working with middle-class, upper-caste Hindu and Pa…