A Survey on Attitude of Gond Tribe Towards Marriage

Abstract

Marriage is an important personal and social affair. A research was conducted to study attitude of Gond tribe towards marriage. Sample size was 20. Data collected from 20 persons of marriageable age, those between 15 and 35, were interviewed. Some were interviewed twice or thrice. It consisted of both open-ended and close-ended questions. The samples comprised of the tribal girls living in Keonjhar district of Odisha at the time of research. Non-random convenience sampling method was used. Some themes were identified on why people marry. For current generation, marriage is needed to show lavishness where, rituals are considered as secondary and there is inter- caste marriages also. Most are in favour of marriage as they want to be independent, due to their own wish, for family lineage, and also get support for their own family. Some are not in favour of doing marriage as they don’t belief in marriage, want to remain alone the entire life and also want to remain with their parents. The intention, beliefs and feelings of participants about marriage have been inquired to know the conative, cognitive and affective components of attitude.