Intimate State - Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi

This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation. It bears upon anthropological understandings of marriageability, urban morality, gender, kinship and the study of the individual and the couple in contemporary India.

List of contents

Foreword by Veena Das.  Preface.  Introduction  1. 'A Form of Marriage in Certain Cases'  2. Legitimating Love: Tis Hazari and the Judicial Process  3. Kidnapping, Elopement, and Self-Abduction  4. Failed Love.  Conclusion.  Bibliography.  Index. 

About the author

Perveez Mody is Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Summary

This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation. It bears upon anthropological understandings of marriageability, urban morality, gender, kinship and the study of the individual and the couple in contemporary India.

Product details

• Authors: Perveez Mody, Perveez (King's College Mody, Perveez (King''s College Mody, Mody Perveez
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367176204
• ISBN: 978-0-367-17620-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Critical Asian Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, India, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociology: family & relationships, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Sociology: family and relationships