This article examines the issues and concerns faced by Indian women in transnational marriages or what are popularly known as NRI marriages in India.
This article examines the issues and concerns faced by Indian women in transnational marriages or what are popularly known as NRI marriages in India. It discusses how the Indian laws, the courts, and women try to deal with the difficulties and problems relating to issues of abuse, abandonment, and violence. It also highlights the inadequacies in laws and policies relating to such marriages in India. This article is complimentary to the article by Ann Stewart that concentrates on the receiving end of transnational marriages in the United Kingdom, and focuses on the ways in which the socio-legal context of the receiving State in this case, the United Kingdom presents difficulties for South Asian women. This article, conversely, takes a sending perspective, that is, the response of the home state, India, to the difficulties faced by Indian women involved in transnational marriages. Abstract published by arrangement with Sage.