Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India

by Rama Srinivasan

Book Overview

Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of a private citizen's engagement with state and law. Through ethnographic research in courtrooms, community, and kinship spaces, the author outlines the transformations in material culture and political economy that have led to renewed negotiations on the institution of marriage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978803532
• ISBN13: 9781978803534
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher