Yes, but it’s less common now. I don’t think longing for Third World practices is really the way to go.
Dude...I am proud of ancestors who invented arrange marriages as a norm.
Getting in to love marriage is so easy in India that even girls from villages are getting married.
But problem is love marriage favours good looking people or those who do not have flaws.
There are self arrange matrimony websites like shaadi dot com,Jeevansathi dot come,bharat matrimony dot com where couples matching are falling in love even before they decide to engage.
This is why I told earlier that Arrange marriage now is like love marriage on rocket.
One friend of me got 100 marriage requests from girls.
He is good looking guy plus rich tall everything.
He got request from 100 girls...he didn't requested any of this 100.
About your third world practices statement,
tell me when you go on a Tinder date..do you even know abcd of a girl.
I have watched a video of one youtuber who met one girl in Japan on Tinder who was talking with disney dolls in her home that where kept with head chopped in a cupboard.
Scary as f***.
He left her home..fighting for saving his life.