Lived experiences: Marriage, notions of love, and kinship support amongst poor women in Delhi

Contributions to Indian Sociology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-33

  Grover, Shalini ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINSHIP; MARRIAGE; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; DELHI; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 66349123521     PISSN: 00699667     EISSN: 09730648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/006996670904300101     Document Type: Article

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