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Marriage Equality in India

Vol. 58, Issue No. 35, 02 Sep, 2023
Sourav Mandal

The ongoing hearings on marriage equality in the Supreme Court have not only raised some pertinent constitutional and human rights issues but also certain key questions, the answers to which will decide the future of LGBTIQ+ rights and activism in India. A report of the ongoing trial is presented in this article, and the potential judicial outcomes are analysed against the backdrop of the constitutional framework, the lived realities of LGBTIQ+ lives, and India’s mainstream politics.

Making the Case for Same-Sex Marriage

This intervention makes the case for legalising same-sex marriage in the country.

On Ensuring Protection of Women in the NRI Marriages

Vol. 57, Issue No. 29, 16 Jul, 2022
Bharat H Desai, Mayank Sharma, Santosh Upadhyay, Moumita Mandal

The study examines the legal remedial measures for women trapped in the non-resident Indian marriages under private and public international law as well as the Indian legal and institutional framework, including a comprehensive legislation and a monitoring mechanism in the Prime Minister’s Office.

Criminalising under-21 Marriage in India

Vol. 57, Issue No. 1, 01 Jan, 2022
Devikrishna N B, Nandlal Mishra

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State as a Partisan Entity

Vol. 56, Issue No. 10, 06 Mar, 2021
Gopal Guru

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Women and Girls’ Access to and Experience of Education: A Reading List

Girls and women’s access to and experience of education is obstructed by male-preferencing power structures that guide perceptions about domestic labour, marriage, and safety.

How Can Families be Imagined Beyond Kinship and Marriage?

Vol. 54, Issue No. 45, 16 Nov, 2019
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019 and the Surrogacy Regulation Bill, 2019 reinforce the idea of family as a patriarchal, heterosexual and casteist institution and fail to account for other models of "chosen families'"and intimacies that co-exist in India. Given that the Supreme Court has recognised the right to intimacy as a core component of autonomy and privacy, the article makes a case for the law to fundamentally rethink the way it regulates personal relationships and in doing so, adopt a more functional" approach.

Patterns of Marriage Dissolution in India

Vol. 53, Issue No. 16, 21 Apr, 2018
Grace Bahalen Mundu, Sayeed Unisa

Data from the Census and District Level Household Survey-3 (2007–08) are used in this paper. The factors of marriage dissolution in India and its regions are investigated using multivariate hazard analysis. The results show that dissolution rates are higher in North-east, South, and West India than in other regions. The risk of marriage dissolution is twice as high for women in urban areas than rural, and higher among the poor than the non-poor, and among the childless than among women with at least one child.

Rights of Second Wives

Vol. 51, Issue No. 25, 18 Jun, 2016
Harsimran Kalra

The Bombay High Court's judgment that second wives can claim retirement benefits of the deceased husband is a step in the right direction. What role do informal justice systems, which focus on restorative justice, play in protecting the rights of second wives?

Muslim Women’s Rights and Media Coverage

Vol. 51, Issue No. 20, 14 May, 2016
Flavia Agnes

Despite the large number of positive court judgements in favour of Muslim women in India, the media prefers to endorse the view that once the husband pronounces talaq, the wife is stripped of all her rights. Similarly, articles by experts, while focusing on the need to declare instantaneous triple talaq invalid, pay little attention to the rights laboriously secured from the trial courts, the high courts and even the Supreme Court by many Muslim women.

Marriage, Work and Education among Domestic Workers in Kolkata

Vol. 47, Issue No. 43, 27 Oct, 2012
Nilanjana Sengupta, Samita Sen

This paper analyses the findings of a research project undertaken by the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University on questions of marriage and related issues in the context of paid domestic work among the working women from two squatter colonies in Kolkata. The respondents are seen to be caught between the imperatives of early marriage and girlhood employment, but they insist upon the value of education for their daughters. Many of them have experienced and suffered early marriage and childbirth and are vehement in their rejection of such a trajectory for their daughters, even though not all of them are able to carry through such decisions. Parents from urban working-class neighbourhoods are not obsessed with sexual chastity of their daughters; they accept courtships and elopements, sometimes hailing the latter with some relief. What these mothers share with their middle class counterparts is an interest in tremendous investment in their children's education, which is in both cases accompanied by great expectations for the future.

Loving and Living in 21st Century India

Vol. 47, Issue No. 25, 23 Jun, 2012
Suhasini Raj

Honour killings are rampant in many parts of India, particularly in its north and northwest states. An account of a young couple who managed to escape and marry but are still being hunted and thus, hiding.

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