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Informationen zum Autor RAMA SRINIVASAN holds a PhD in Anthropology from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and currently pens articles on gender and sexuality, politics, cinema and popular culture, law and society, and immigration and diaspora issues. She lives in Frankfurt, Germany. From May 2020, she will be a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Fellow at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Klappentext Courting Desire traces organically evolving ideas on sexual consent and legal subjectivity through a study of marital patterns in North India. Through research in courtrooms and community spaces, it outlines the processes through which eloping couples secure legal validity for their relationships of choice where family-arranged matches are the norm. Zusammenfassung Through ethnographic research in courtrooms, community,and kinship spaces, this book outlines the transformations in material culture and political economy that have led to renewed negotiations on the institution of marriage in North India, especially in legal spaces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface INTRODUCTION Terms of Endearment: Living and Loving in North India Part 1. Localizing Marriage 1. Civil Marriage in Post-Independence India: Birth of a Utopic Idea 2. Of Rebellious Lovers and Conformist Citizens 3. Love, Marriage, and the Brave New World Part 2. State and Subjectivity: Capacity to Aspire in Post-Agrarian North India 4. Gender Trouble and a State of Illusions 5. Instituting Court Marriage: The Legal Fiction of Protection Petitions 6. Consenting Adults and the State: Social Change Through Conformity Part 3. The Politics of Love, Marriage, and a Liveable Future 7. Towards an Alternative Future: Eloping Couples, Citizenry, and Social Mobility Conclusion. Closures, New Beginnings, and Happily Ever After? Acknowledgments Appendix
