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ca-5460	Awal, Akanksha	Love as Enjoyment: Hopelessness, Play, and Desirable Futures in Ghaziabad, India	2025	31	.pdf	application/pdf	13991	749	61	Therefore, many if not most of the one hundred middle-class and lower-middle-class young women and twenty men respondents in Ghaziabad, Hapur, and Meerut Districts insisted that they enjoyed without ever having pursued love (pyaar) leading to marriage.15 In moments of quiet reflection, though, they referred to enjoyment as a form of love without a future (see also Dave 2018) and entered arranged marriages. We met regularly in 2015 and 2016 when I was conducting ethnographic research on how education changes women’s ideas of love, marriage, and desirable futures.	cache/ca-5460.pdf	txt/ca-5460.txt