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Anju wants a husband. Equally important, her entire family wants Anju to have a husband. Her life in Bombay, where a marriage can be arranged in a matter of hours, is almost solely devoted to this quest, with her anxious mother hauling her from holy site to holy site in order to consult and entreat swamis and astrologers. As Anju’s twenties slip away, she’s fast becoming a spinster by her culture’s standards, so she moves to New York City to work in fashion. For Matrimonial Purposes is the hilarious story of Anju’s journey, her quest for love, and the choices that she must make while trying to remain true to herself and satisfy her family and tradition.
This novel is about two families- one Kerala bureaucratic family and other Punjabi business family living in Delhi. The pretty Kerala professional girl is in love with the handsome, rich, eligible Punjabi colleague and the differences between the two families are so marked and sharp that before they think of setting up a meeting of their parents, they have to find some sort of acceptance for themselves within their partner's family. This leads them on to a hilarious journey of gaining acceptance from their prospective spouse's family. Gone are the days when parents made all the decisions in Indian marriages. The concept of marriage is changing fast. Realizing that marriages involve their parents as much as themselves, Indian youth want to orchestrate a meeting between the two sets of parents with oodles of Indian panache. The first meeting between the two set of families is not limited to bashful Indian girl serving tea. The girl and the boy have to seriously market themselves and so is the case with their parents With geographical, cultural and social differences of a higher degree, the task becomes increasingly complex. The young generation cashing on the fact that Indian weddings being a family bond are keen to show their parents that they have made the right choices and this puts up the parents for display in the marriage market.
This book makes a compelling case for placing the social and legal practices of inheritance centre stage to make sense of fundamental questions of our time. Drawing on historical, literary, sociological, and legal analysis, this rich collection of original, interdisciplinary and international contributions demonstrates how inheritance is and has always been about far more than the set of legal processes for the distribution of wealth and property upon death. The contributions range from exploring the intractable tensions underlying family disputes and the legal and political debates about taxation, to revisiting literary plots in the past and presenting a contemporary artistic challenge of heirship. With an introduction that presents a critical mapping of the field of inheritance studies, this collection reveals the complexity of ideas about 'passing on', 'legacies', and 'heirlooms'; troubles some of the enduring consequences of 'charitable bequests', 'family money', and 'estate planning; and, deepens our understanding of the intimate and political practices of inheritance.
This book traces the economic and social impact of inequality in marriage, and considers its implications for development. Looking at child marriage; the link between women's economic contribution, equality within marriage, NGO responses to domestic violence, and the need to understand particular forms of marriage for appropriate development policy
"Abstracts were prepared under the general supervision of Dr. D. Narain, University of Bombay."
This book examines the operational dynamics of patriarchy that is deeply woven into the Indian cultural fabric and its persistence in spite of women advancing in Human Development Indices. In studying the situation of women of the Catholic Syrian Christian community of Kerala, South India, as a case of analysis, Kochurani Abraham identifies caste consciousness and religious prescriptions of this community as the main factors that intersect with gendered identity construction and succeed in keeping women within its patriarchal confines. While women do engage in negotiating patriarchy through what can be termed simulative, tactical, and ‘agensic’ bargains, this remains a ‘politics of survival’ as it does not challenge the established gender order. In this context, making a shift from ‘politics of survival’ to a ‘politics of subversion’ is imperative for challenging persisting patriarchies.
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