Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India by Prem Chowdhry

Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India

Prem Chowdhry

360 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative slow-paced

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This book deals with the widespread phenomenon of contentious marriages and elopements in rural and semi-urban north India, specifically in the state of Haryana. Such challenges to norms and customs have escalated in recent times, and have become ...

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