@misc{Romanowicz_Anna_So_2025, author={Romanowicz, Anna}, volume={23}, copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license}, address={Kraków}, journal={Journal of Urban Ethnology}, howpublished={online}, year={2025}, publisher={Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk}, language={eng}, abstract={Most scholars determine the extent of individual choice to delineate love and arranged marriages, as well as other types of intimate relationships, in India. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork among urban middle class in Delhi, I challenge this approach. I argue that as no choice is ever taken in a social vacuum, the love and arranged marriage dichotomy, theoretically embedded in the individualisation thesis, is ill understood. Its inadvertent consequence is reproduction of neoliberal myth of an individual “freed” of social influences and constraints.}, title={So different, yet so similar: theoretical reflections about intimate relationships in urban middle class India}, type={Text}, URL={http://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/Content/257768/294769_I.pdf}, keywords={intimate relationships, individual choice, middle class, India}, }