1st Edition

Marriage, Love, Caste and Kinship Support Lived Experiences of the Urban Poor in India

By Shalini Grover Copyright 2018
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.