1st Edition

The Intimate State Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi

By Perveez Mody Copyright 2008
    336 Pages
    by Routledge India

    336 Pages
    by Routledge India

    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.

    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.