From the Margins of Hindu Marriage Essays in Gender, Religion, and Culture

This is a collection of previously unpublished essays exploring the meanings of marriage in South Asian Hindu culture: its practices, assumption, sensibilities and discontents. The authors use new understandings of gender to study local practices, attitudes, folk narratives, ritual symbols, and religious sensibilities as they bear on religion, gender, and social life in the Hindu world.Harlan, Lindsey is the author of 'From the Margins of Hindu Marriage Essays in Gender, Religion, and Culture' with ISBN 9780195081176 and ISBN 019508117X.