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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.
Marriage, Love, Caste and Kinship Support
Politics of Belonging in Contemporary India
Security, Socialisation and Affect in Indian Families
Intimate Mobilities
Introduction to Marriage Laws in India
Violence in Intimate Spaces
Kinship as Fiction
Romantic Relationships in a Time of 'Cold Intimacies'
Intimate Relationships and Social Change
Cohabitation and the Evolving Nature of Intimate and Family Relationships
Marriage Migration, Family and Citizenship in Asia
Intimacies