Love in India: Politics, Desires, and Sexualities

This book provides a comprehensive perspective on discourses of love in contemporary India. It focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in India. Overwhelmingly, scholarship on love, especially in India, situates and analyses it in the context of marriage, family and beyond. It reviews those frameworks but goes beyond them by drawing attention to a range of sites, analytical prisms and everyday experiences of love, incl...