This work on inter-caste and inter-religious marriages is a result of the author, Lina Fruzzetti’s long-time fieldwork in India. With detailed case studies from Bishnupur, West Bengal, it probes aspects like society’s concern with such marriages which it believes are wrongly grounded and the way women in particular cope who their families’ rejection of their choices. It examines how the women negotiate new boundaries in the course of asserting ...
Culture, Power and Agency: Gender in Indian Ethnography
