'Performing Women' brings visibility to the work of women who performed on the borderlines of dominant theatrical activity and engaged in dramatic enactments that contested middle-class codes of female propriety, which became normalised in the national popular consciousness.
"This book studies the evolution of financial markets operating beyond the reach of the law and without recourse to legal practices, predominantly in an urban north Indian setting centering on the city of Banaras in North India. It straddles the divide between social and economi…
"This book studies the evolution of financial markets operating beyond the reach of the law and without recourse to legal practices, predominantly in an urban north Indian setting centering on the city of Banaras in North India. It straddles the divide between social and economi…
"Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of a private citizen's engagement with state and law. Through ethnographic research in courtrooms, com…
"Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of a private citizen's engagement with state and law. Through ethnographic research in courtrooms, com…
Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of a private citizen's engagement with state and law. Through ethnographic research in courtrooms, comm…
Introduction : Few Wives Available Locally -- A Society in Flux -- Some Men Are More Ineligible Than Others -- The Lament of the Poor : Distant Marriages of Loved Ones -- Trafficked? Or Married? Wherein Lies the Truth? -- The Stain of the Internal Other -- Docile Brides, Efficie…
"The book examines cross-region marriage migration in India that transgresses traditional norms of caste, religion, and ethnicity in marriage-making. An intimate account of the lived experience of migrant Hindu and Muslim brides in rural North India, it foregrounds the intersect…
"The book examines cross-region marriage migration in India that transgresses traditional norms of caste, religion, and ethnicity in marriage-making. An intimate account of the lived experience of migrant Hindu and Muslim brides in rural North India, it foregrounds the intersect…
This book examines the politics of social, cultural and political recognition of caste groups in North India. It explores the factors that make some castes politically influential, while others continue to remain socially and economically marginalized. The author situates these …
"This book examines the politics of social, cultural and political recognition of caste groups in North India. It explores the factors that make some castes politically influential, while others continue to remain socially and economically marginalized. The author situates these…
