Nation and Family Personal Law

Nation and Family Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India My earlier research examined certain ways in which public actors sought to express cultural specifi city and reduce socioeconomic in e qual ity in India. While continuing to address these questions, this book explores some themes in much greater detail— especially the interactions of states, nationalisms, and legal institutions with gendered inequalities, and the interplay of religious discourses and secularist policy frames. Th is project took over a de cade of research, refl ection, and writing, in the course of which I accumulated many debts, intellectual, professional, and personal, not all of which I am in a position to mention here.