Jural relations of middle-class marriage and women as legal subjects in the imaginary of ‘new India’

In India's capital New Delhi, four Family Courts were set up between 2009 and 2012, and 12 mediation institutions known as Crime Against Women Cells (CAW cells) were established during the same period. The Indian state has also endorsed gender-equalising family legislation, mutual-consent divor...

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Main Author: Grover, Shalini (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2017
In: The Australian journal of anthropology
Year: 2017, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 251-268
Further subjects:B gender relations
B rising divorce
B Legal Anthropology
B metropolitan middle classes
B South Asia
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