Modern education has played its role in initiating some changes in marriage. it is through modern education that some of the modern values and western ideologies such as rationalism, individualism, equality of sex, democracy, individuals freedom, secularism etc. have influenced the outlook of our educated young men and women. Hence, they want to take their independent decisions on the man events of their life such as line of education, job and marriage. Thus our educated youth have their own views and stand on matters like to marry or not to marry, when to marry, whom to marry, how to marry etc. they do not want their families to decide these matters. Educated youth do not hesitate to go beyond the boundaries of family ties to select for them suitable life-partners. for this purpose they sometimes contact "marriage bureaus" and give advertisements in the matrimonial columns of the newspapers. in the circle of the college educated young men and women marriage is becoming a simple ceremony losing many of its rigid traditional customs. they give more importance to personal preferences and choices in marriage rather than to the gotra rules, family, traditions and rules of horoscope. some of them are even ready for inter-caste marriages and if necessary, even for registered marriages. Modern education has influenced marriage in different ways. Parents cannot impose any unwanted marriage on their educated daughters in the name of "family decisions or prestige". well educated people are expected not to insist on dowry in marriage. In India paradoxically, higher educated modern men demand a higher dowry than the uneducated or less educated. Educated and employed women are also not able to resist such a demand. They normally yield to its pressure and some of them even become victims of dowry disasters. Instances of divorce, desertion and separation are found in a larger number in the circle of educated persons than n the midst of the uneducated youth.
