Tan Prints From Marriage to Motherhood—Why We Do It by Rajul Bhargava Edition September 2026

From Marriage to Motherhood—Why We Do It  Rajul Bhargava Edition 2026

From Marriage to Motherhood—Why We Do It  Rajul Bhargava Edition 2026

Description

From Marriage to Motherhood is a single-volume, illustrated guide to the Indian customs that surround marriage, pregnancy, childbirth and the first year of a child’s life—158 pages in simple English, organised as 6 parts and 82 chapters, and built to answer the question its cover asks: why we do it.

The book states the traditional belief, describes what is actually done, sets out what modern science says, marks where the two meet, gives a Science Verdict, and closes on a single-line takeaway. Those six headings are comprised in all 65 chapters in Parts 2 to 5 without exception—390 labelled sections—so a reader learns the shape once and then can go straight to whichever custom has just been asked of them.

What makes it worth owning is that it is willing to say when the evidence is thin. Part 6 audits the whole book at once and sorts 65 traditions into three tiers: 25 strongly supported by modern science, 25 with partial support, and 15 with limited evidence—the last fifteen set out again, one by one, with their own belief, evidence and verdict. The purpose ‘is not to declare winners and losers between tradition and science’, but to show where they agree, where they overlap and where they differ.

The Present Publication is the 1st Edition | 2026. It is conceptualized by Shri Rajul Bhargava and published under the Sanatana Bodh imprint, with the following noteworthy features:

• [A Science Verdict on 65 Traditions] Each of the 65 traditions treated individually is graded, and Part 6 sorts out all 65 into three tiers—25 strongly supported by modern science, 25 with partial support, 15 with limited evidence.
• [The Same Six Headings on Each 65 Chapter] Traditional Belief, The Ritual, What modern science says?, Tradition and Science: Where they meet?, Science Verdict, and a one-line Key Takeaway.
• [It Declines to Take Sides] In the book’s own words: the purpose ‘is not to declare winners and losers between tradition and science. Instead, it helps us understand where the two agree, where they partially overlap, and where they differ.’ Fifteen traditions are ranked as having limited evidence.
• [The Whole Journey, in Order] Six parts featuring before the marriage is arranged to the child’s first birthday—kundali matching and gotra, conception, the nine months, the birth room, the forty days, and the sanskaras from Namkaran through Vidyarambh. 82 chapters in all
• [Sixty Interesting Points, Six Illustrated Panels] Each part opens on an ornamented plate of 10 Interesting Points—60 across the book, readable on their own
• [A Chapter for the Village Dai] Eleven pages on the traditional midwife—what she did, what she knew, where her knowledge came from, and where modern medicine has to take over—with a Traditional Practice versus Modern Approach comparison table
• [Written for the Family, Not the Clinic] Simple English throughout, with the Sanskrit and Hindi names of each ritual given as they are used at home. It explains what families do and why they came to do it; it is not a medical manual and does not present itself as one
• [Part of the Sanatana Bodh Series] The English volume of a list that otherwise runs in Hindi—alongside Mera Sanatan and dedicated books on the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gita, the Ramcharitmanas, the Mahabharata, the Manusmriti and more

The coverage of the book is as follows:

• Part 1 — Before Marriage: Preparing for Future Parenthood
• Part 2 — Before Pregnancy: Preparing for Parenthood
• Part 3 — During Pregnancy: Nine Months of Care
• Part 4 — Childbirth: Traditional Midwives and the First Day
• Part 5 — After Pregnancy: The First Forty Days
• Part 6 — Tradition Meets Science: The Verdicts

The Book is structured as follows:

• Chronological, Start to Finish—the six parts follow the journey in the order a family lives it—before marriage, before pregnancy, the nine months, the birth, the forty days, and then the verdicts
• An Illustrated Panel Opening Each Part—10 Interesting Points inside an ornamental border, so each part can be understood before a single chapter is read
• A Fixed Six-Part Chapter Across Parts 2 to 5—belief, ritual, evidence, overlap, verdict, takeaway—the same six headings on all 65 chapters
• The Evidence Held Back to the End—Part 6 audits the whole book at once, so the individual chapters can describe a custom fairly before it is ranked
• Three Ways to Read—cover to cover as the journey, straight to the ritual someone has just asked you about, or straight to Part 6 for the verdicts