Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Social Sciences and Humanities
Parul Bhandari completed her PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge. Her thesis was on the marriage practices of the middle class in Delhi. Her current research is on gender and elites. She has held Guest Lectureships at the Indian Insitute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, (July-September 2015) and at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics (January-May 2015).
At CSH, she primarily conducts research on elite women of New Delhi, whilst she also prepares to publish her PhD on marriages amongst the middle class.
Inside the big fat Indian wedding: conservatism, competition, and networks
Jan 13, 2017 15:06 pm UTC| Life
Indian weddings are most famously imagined as enormous spectacles. This image is surely real, though representative of a small segment of the Indian population, and realised only in the world of the super-rich. Some...
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