"…Chaudhry's book succeeds in painstakingly describing the worldview of a village in Uttar Pradesh, shedding new light on issues of marriage in rural North India, as well as contributing to more global anthropological debates on the intersections between gender, marriage, and migration." — Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"…a significant contribution to the literature on gender, marriage and migration in India. Written as a highly readable text this would interest not only undergraduate and graduate students in sociology, anthropology, kinship, migration and gender studies but also anyone who wants to explore questions of marriage, migration and intimacy." — Journal of South Asian Development"…this book is a critical and comprehensive study of compulsory heterosexual marriage—hint: there are no winners here, but some lose more. Chaudhry presents not just 'another case' from the Global South, but rich empirical material from a particular rural lifeworld that pushes the boundaries of how we understand coercion and intimacy for all women … [it] is welcome and important reading." — Gender & Society"While this ethnography was conducted in India, Chaudhry's findings have applicability to our understanding of the more widespread phenomenon of 'foreign' brides being brought by better-off men from poorer parts of their own country or from less prosperous countries elsewhere in the world. Though the trend is not new, it has increased significantly with globalization in recent decades and has therefore attracted considerable scholarly interest. Thus, this book contributes not only to the field of South Asian studies but also to the much larger field of the study of gender and marriage migration in the entire modern world." — Sylvia Vatuk, author of Marriage and Its Discontents: Women, Islam, and the Law in India
