Priya Agarwal Unconventional misters on horseback for barats challenging patriarchal society in India
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When Priya Agarwal arrived at her marriage venue on a white steed, she not only impressed the people with her golden unheroic saree and red and unheroic turban but at the same time she also shocked the patriarchal system.
Priya, 27, got married in Ambala before this month and it was bruited not only in her home state of Haryana but also that the news of her marriage was making captions.
A videotape of the viral event showed him riding a steed, spreading his arms, laughing while other family members and musketeers were walking side by side in a procession and stopping to dance every many twinkles while one The band was playing music.
I was just happy,she told the BBC. Every bride knows that he'll be on horseback at the marriage, but misters do not.
"I felt like an emperor, a commander, leading his procession,"he said with a laugh.
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Priya isn't the first Indian bridegroom to ride a steed in her marriage and there have been some incidents in recent times in which misters have ridden a steed but these incidents are so rare that can be counted on the fritters of the hand.
Traditionally, the bride comes on horseback in the procession of Barat.
Ram Narayan Kogata, author of a book on marriage rituals, says “ It's a special day. He's likened to a king who comes with great pomp to marry his bridegroom, is clothed in silk blankets and beautifiers, and has a brand slung around his midriff, so that if any devil beats hisbride.However, he can fight her, If he tries to steal from her.
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Marriage expert Nita Rahija says that although the tradition of shy Indian misters has been fading for over a decade now, the bridegroom on horseback is surely unique.
"I no longer see the shy bridegroom bowing her head and walking with the help of musketeers and cousins.
Currently, misters make fabulous entrances, they come with a bouquet of flowers, or girdled by girls for dust, they come in limousines or they enter small buses or chariots decorated with flowers and meanwhile The music that's played ispre-selected.
Rahija says that by choosing to ride a steed at her marriage, Priya has made a feminist statement."It's a satisfying thing,"she added."She's OK.
Priya says it was her father Narendra Agarwal who advised her to ride a steed at his marriage.
Also readMr. Agrawal is a businessman. He told the BBC from his home in Ambala that he was a establishment religionist in gender equivalency.
He said'I've noway treated my son else from my son. My son was riding a steed at his marriage last time, so it was applicable for my son to do the same.
"The communication was to shoot a communication to our society that a son is as precious as a son and if parents support her, she'll go a long way,"he added.
Haryana is a state where the patriarchal system is deeply embedded. In this case, his statement is conspicuous and it's also significant because Ambala is known as an unfriendly area with girls.
Priya says it was her father's plan
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When Priya was born in the 1990's, revocation was common in the quarter when she was a girl.
Families seeking sons were using antenatal diagnostics for womanish fetal revocations, as substantiated by the 2001 tale, which showed that every boys in the age group of 0 to 6 times in Ambala. There were only 781 girls in the competition.
Mr Agarwal says that when Priya was born, she was" veritably happy"and celebrated by distributing sweets at the sanitarium.
Mr Agarwal considers his son his' lucky charm'and has been naming all his businesses after Priya for numerous times.
He says he was" veritably proud"when he saw his son riding a steed.
As Priya's party was passing through the narrow thoroughfares of the megacity, her fianc Aro Gupta was watching her live on a videotape call. Aaru is also a counsel by profession.
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Aaro laughed and told me that Priya and her parents had kept their plan secret so they had no idea about their unusual entry.
He said'I was watching it with my parents, cousins and musketeers. We were each amazed but it was a affable sight.
'We were each amazed at what was passing. It was new to see a bridegroom on horseback, but it brought a stimulating change.
Everyone liked it. And I was veritably proud to be married to a woman who's veritably stalwart and valorous.