Srimati Basu

Srimati Basu

Srimati Basu is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, and the author of The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India (2015). She has previously written about Indian women and inheritance laws in the monograph, She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property and Propriety (1999), and on property, law, marriage, intimacy, violence and popular culture in various anthologies and journals, edited the Dowry and Inheritance volume in the series Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism and is a contributing blogger to Ms. magazine.