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Author Mody, Perveez

Title The Intimate State : Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2008

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Description 1 online resource (333 pages)
Series Critical Asian Studies
Critical Asian Studies
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Note on Translation and Transliteration; List of Photographs, Table and Figure; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 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
Summary 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
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Subject Social sciences.
Intermarriage.
Marriage law -- India -- Delhi
Marriage customs and rites -- India -- Delhi
Intermarriage -- India -- Delhi
Intermarriage -- Law and legislation -- India -- Delhi
social sciences.
Intermarriage
Marriage customs and rites
Marriage law
Social sciences
India
India -- Delhi
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203874691
0203874692