The Intimate State: Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi [Paperback]

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.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. 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.US? 2008 Perveez Mody