Marriage, Love, Caste and Kinship Support

ISBN-13: 9781032652849 / Miękka / 2024 / 264 str.

Shalini Grover

Opis

The book helps to understand the marital experiences of people most of whom belong to the Scheduled Caste. The author describes the shifts within their marriages, remarriages and other kinds of unions and their striking diversities. An important contribution of the book lies in the unfolding of the role of women-led informal courts and their inf

Spis treści

Foreword by Professor Patricia Uberoi
1. Mapping the Debate on Marriage 2. Revisiting Arranged Marriages: Marital Roles, Conflict and Kinship Support 3. Courtships and Love Marriages 4. Secondary Unions and Other Conjugal Arrangements 5. Informal Dispute Settlement: The Mahila Panchayats 6. Towards the Democratization of Marriage and Relationships: Conclusion

O autorze

Shalini Grover: She is author of several papers on marriage and kinship including ‘Lived Experiences: Marriage, Notions  of Love and Kinship Support  Amongst Poor Women in Delhi’, Contributions to Indian  Sociology, 43(1), 2009. This book was written during her tenure as a Sir Ratan Tata Fellow in Sociology at the Institute  of Economic Growth, University of Delhi.