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The Intimate State

- Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi

About The Intimate State

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.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780415446044
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 336
  • Published:
  • October 23, 2008
  • Dimensions:
  • 147x223x27 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 572 g.
Delivery: 2-3 weeks
Expected delivery: December 8, 2024

Description of The Intimate State

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.

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