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1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface to the Revised Edition; Glossary; 1. Mapping the Debate on Marriage; From Formal Marriage Rules to Everyday Practices; Marriage, Love, Caste and Kinship Support: Framing the Debate; Globalization, Gender Equality, and Radical Shifts; Women-led Informal Courts and their Transformatory Potential; Structure of the Book; Representation and Lived Experience: The Journey; Translation and the Case Study Method; The Setting; Caste, Region, and Religion: Heterogeneity and Differentiation |
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2. Revisiting Arranged Marriages Marital Roles, Conflict, and Kinship SupportMarital Arrangements in Mohini Nagar; The Male Breadwinner Ideology; Problematizing Marital Relationships; Kinship Support: The Role of Parental Refuge; Mother-Daughter Bonds and Married Women's Labour; Durable Support Structures: A Double-edged Sword; 3. Courtships and Love Marriages; Subversive Practices in Love and Marriage; Premarital Romance in Urban Neighbourhoods; Theatre of Courtship; 'Love Marriage' and its Many Connotations; Between Courtship and Marriage: Caste, Community, and Religion |
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Inter-caste Matches: The Balmiki ConundrumInter-regional Matches: Place, Gender, and Culture; Inter-religious Love Marriages; Hindu-Muslim Love Marriages; Married Love: The Post-marriage Phase; The Parental Role and Kinship Support; Conjugal Stability in Love Marriages; Dominant Discourses and the Right to Love; 4. Secondary Unions and Other Conjugal Arrangements; Mapping the Terrain of Post-marital Consensuality; Secondary Unions in a Metropolis; Consensuality and Commitment: Customary Processes; The Love Stories of Radha and Her Sisters |
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Generational Shifts: Marriage, Consensuality, CohabitationWomen's Appraisals of their Secondary Partners; Married Women and Unmarried Men; 5. Informal Dispute Settlement: The Mahila Panchayats; Legal and Non-legal Pluralisms in Everyday Life; Biradari Panchayats; The Mahila Panchayat in Mohini Nagar; Arbitration at the Mahila Panchayat; The Mahila Panchayat's Framework of Resolution; Frequently Reported Grievances; Bargaining for Solutions: The Mahila Panchayat's Articulations of Marriage(s); Discourses on Romantic Love and Love Marriages |
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Conceptions of 'Nagging' and Post-marital Consensual UnionsThe Mahila Panchayat's Transformatory Character; The Conservatism and Success of the Mahila Panchayat; 6. Towards the Democratization of Marriage and Relationships Conclusion; 7. Epilogue; Annexure; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"This book makes use of interesting case studies and photographs to describe everyday life in a squatter settlement in Delhi. The book helps to understand the marital experiences of these people most of whom belong to the Scheduled Caste and live in one identified geographical space. The author describes the shifts within their marriages, remarriages and other kinds of unions and their striking diversities, which have been described with care. Shalini Grover also examines the close ties of married women with their mothers and natal families. An important contribution of the book lies in the unfolding of the role of women-led informal courts, Mahila Panchayats and their influence in conflict resolution. This takes place in a distinctly different mode of community-based arbitration against the backdrop of mainstream legal structures and male-dominated caste associations. The book will be of interest to students of sociology and social anthropology, gender studies, development studies, law and psychology. Activists and family counsellors will also find the book useful."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Marriage -- India
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Marriage -- India -- Delhi
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Urban poor -- India -- Social conditions
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Marriage.
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Social conditions.
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Urban poor -- Social conditions.
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064951
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India.
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India -- Delhi.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351402385 |
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1351402382 |
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