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Not long ago, an Indian woman, even a working Indian woman, would almost always have moved from her parents’ house to her husband’s.
Many are deferring marriage for a year or two, maybe more, while they make money and live lives that most of their mothers could not have dreamed of.

In this deeply traditional society, accustomed to absorbing influences of all kinds over the centuries, change comes slowly, if at all. And so the new economy, and the new lifestyle it has engendered, has hardly wiped away the old values, particularly with respect to marriage.

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Yet, for women like these, freedom has brought new choices, new problems and as Ms. Khaddar puts it, new guilt.

A bigger fear, she confesses, is not being married at all.

“I’m torn about this whole independence thing,” Ms. Khaddar said.