Banudas Sonawane is an angry man: Angry that his eldest daughter, a 19-year-old, joined a hospitality course without his permission. Angry that the girl, Anita, didn’t call home often enough while she was at the two-month long residential course–even though he had given her a paid up SIM card. Angry that the job she was offered after the course was, in his eyes, low in status.

Angry that a government job did not come her way. Most of all, Sonawane is angry by an apparent correlation between girls who get jobs and love marriages. Father of five girls and one boy (the ...