ISBN:
9781501762567
,
9781501762574
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 284 pages)
,
maps (black and white).
Series Statement:
Cornell scholarship online
DDC:
306.809541
Keywords:
Intermarriage
;
Married women Social conditions 21st century
;
Migration, Internal Social aspects
;
Caste
;
Family and Relationships
;
Indian sub-continent
;
India
;
Asian history
;
Society & culture: general
;
Gender studies: women & girls
;
India, North Social conditions 21st century
Abstract:
'Why Would I Be Married Here?' examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across the breadth of India seeking brides who do not share the same caste, ethnicity, language, or customs as themselves. Combining rich ethnographic evidence with Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks, Reena Kukreja connects the macro-political violent process of neoliberalism to the micro-personal level of marriage and intimate gender relations to analyse the lived reality of this set of migrant brides in cross-region marriages among dominant-peasant caste Hindus and Meo Muslims in rural North India.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2022
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7591/cornell/9781501762550.001.0001
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501762550.001.0001
