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

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Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India - Chowdhry, Prem
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This book deals with the widespread phenomenon of contentious marriages and elopements in Haryana. It focuses on the role of caste panchayats which curbs individual rights in the name of maintaining honor, brotherhood, community, and village unity, and unravels how state agencies abet the arbitrary workings of these panchayat.

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Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India 2010, Oxford University Press, USA, New Delhi

ISBN-13: 9780198063612

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