Marriages have traditionally been arranged by parents of the same caste in different villages between young people who have never met.
There are fewer divorces with arranged marriages than with love marriages based on the fact there are relatively low divorce rates in countries with arranged marriages and high divorce rates in countries with love marriages. Even so arranged marriages have a very high success rate. Many future spouses in India have never met one another before they are introduced by their parents. It is estimated that 80 percent of all marriages in South Asia are arranged by the bride and groom's parents.