Courting desire : litigating for love in North India
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Bibliographic Information
Courting desire : litigating for love in North India
(The politics of marriage and gender : global issues in local contexts / series editor, Péter Berta)
Rutgers University Press, c2020
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 in North India, especially in legal spaces. Tracing organically evolving notions of sexual consent and legal subjectivity, Courting Desire underlines how non-normative decisions regarding marriage become possible in a region otherwise known for high instances of honor killings and rigid kinship structures. Aspirations for consensual relationships have led to a tentative attempt to forge relationships that are non-normative but grudgingly approved after state intervention. The book traces this nascent and under-explored trend in the North Indian landscape.
Table of Contents
Preface
INTRODUCTION Terms of Endearment: Living and Loving in North India
Part 1. Localizing Marriage
1. Civil Marriage in Post-Independence India: Birth of a Utopic Idea
2. Of Rebellious Lovers and Conformist Citizens
3. Love, Marriage, and the Brave New World
Part 2. State and Subjectivity: Capacity to Aspire in Post-Agrarian North India
4. Gender Trouble and a State of Illusions
5. Instituting Court Marriage: The Legal Fiction of Protection Petitions
6. Consenting Adults and the State: Social Change Through Conformity
Part 3. The Politics of Love, Marriage, and a Liveable Future
7. Towards an Alternative Future: Eloping Couples, Citizenry, and Social Mobility
Conclusion. Closures, New Beginnings, and Happily Ever After?
Acknowledgments
Appendix
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