ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |60 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|42 pages

‘A Form of Marriage in Certain Cases’

chapter 3|35 pages

Kidnapping, Elopement, and Self-Abduction

chapter 4|65 pages

Failed Love