Why Would I Be Married Here? : : Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India /

Why Would I Be Married Here? : : Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India / / Reena Kukreja.

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 w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Kukreja, Reena,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.) :; 5 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Few Wives Available Locally
  • 1. A Society in Flux
  • 2. Some Men Are More Ineligible Than Others
  • 3. The Lament of the Poor: Distant Marriages of Loved Ones
  • 4. Trafficked? Or Married? Wherein Lies the Truth?
  • 5. The Stain of the Internal Other
  • 6. Docile Brides, Efficient Workers: Undertaking Everyday Negotiations and Resistances
  • Conclusion: What Lies Ahead: Continued Dispossession or Reclaiming Rights?
  • Appendix: List of Interviewees Directly Quoted
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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