Contents: Introduction/Karen Isaksen Leonard, Gayatri Reddy and Ann Grodzins Gold. 1. The (Im?) possibilities of a situated feminist subject in Shiv Sena: Shiv Sainiks, Governance, and adjustment in Maharashtra/Tarni Bedi. 2. The legal structures of kinship: re-working affinity, residence and entitlement in the Kolkata family court/Srimati Basu. 3. Marital intimacy: a four-generation study of change among Havik Brahmans/Helen Ullrich. 4. Family strategies in Khalapur, U.P., over the twentieth century: Asha Ram teacher and his Khandan/Pauline Kolenda. 5. Degrees of diasporic separation: family narratives of continuity/Karen Isaksen Leonard. 6. The place (s) of transgressive sexuality in South Asia: from ritual to popular culture/Pnina Werbner. 7. Healing madness through ritual trials/Helene Basu. 8. 'Courage' and authority in the next generation: shifts in gender expectations and performance in a Hyderabadi Sufi helaing tradition/Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger. 9. A splendid thing for the empire': some reflections on ethnography, entextualizing practices and criminality in colonial India/Gloria Goodwin Raheja. Afterwod/Sylvia Vatuk. Vita/Sylvia Vatuk.