Prem Chowdhry

Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples

Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India

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Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with the widespread phenomenon of contentious marriages and elopements in Haryana. It focuses on the role of caste panchayats which curbs individual rights in the name of maintaining honour, brotherhood, community, and village unity. It also unravels how state agencies abet the arbitrary workings of these panchayat.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 147mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780198063612
• ISBN-10: 019806361X
• Artikelnr.: 54549273

Autorenporträt

Prem Chowdhry is an independent researcher and Former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements, Introduction;
* 1.: Colonial period: Creeping Rigidity;
* 2.: Post-colonial Haryana: Caste Endogamy and Traditional Panchayats;
* 3.: Inter-Caste Marriages: Defying Cultural Norms
* 4.: Cases of Runaway Marriage: State Intervention
* 5.: Controlling Remarriage: Post-Colonial Strengthening of the
Levirate
* 6.: Understanding Local Perceptions: Caste Stereotypes and Cultural
Explanations;
* 7.: Social Factors: Political Economy of Contentious Marriages
* Epilogue: Complexities and Concerns; Glossary; Bibliography; Index