marriage matching in modern and hindu marriages

In the modern world so much is made of the sex element in marriage
that the other equally important factors, social and psychological, are
practically ignored. The Hindu Sastras, having in view the climatic and
ethnological conditions of India, have fixed the maximum and minimum
age limits for marriage. Marriages between parties belonging to the
same Gotra are not favoured perhaps because of the dysgenic
influence on the offspring. Inter-racial, intercommunal and inter-religious
marriages are not looked upon favourably because in such matches
there are cultural differences.

After a careful consideration of all these factors, the Hindus had devised
an astrological means of judging marriage compatibility whereby the
relations between the couple may stand the strain of maladjustments.
Pseudosexologists and sociologists are not wanting in India who are
ever ready to point out their finger of contempt at the sound and
sensible institution of marriage developed by the Hindus after centuries
of experience and experiments. We are not concerned with such
socialistic theories advocating companionate marriage and encouraging
unbridled licence in love affairs. They may be all right in countries like
Russia and America - the melting pots of different races. But they
cannot hold water in a country like India whose civilisation, culture and
social laws are peculiar to her geographical and historical positions.