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