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.
By:
Perveez Mody Imprint: Routledge India Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 780g ISBN:9780415446044 ISBN 10: 041544604X Series:Critical Asian Studies Pages: 336 Publication Date:24 October 2008 Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
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.
Perveez Mody is Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge