The Intimate State: Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi

Perveez Mody

Taylor & Francis, Mar 1, 2008 - Political Science - 250 pages

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.

About the author

Perveez Mody is Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Intimate State: Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi; Critical Asian Studies
• Author: Perveez Mody
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2008
• ISBN: 0203874692, 9780203874691
• Length: 250 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / General; Social Science / General