Publications: Books (Single Authored Monographs):
Grover, Shalini. Forthcoming. Caregiving and the Centre of Empire and Contemporary Societies in a Global World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Under Contract (sample chapters available)
Grover, Shalini. 2018. Revised international edition of the below published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis, United Kingdom & New York https://www.routledge.com/Marriage-Love-Caste-and-Kinship-Support-Lived-Experiences-of-the-Urban/Grover/p/book/9781138019331
Additional preface and epilogue marking change and continuity during 2000-16.
Grover, Shalini. 2011. Marriage, Love, Caste, and Kinship Support: Lived Experiences of the Urban Poor in India. New Delhi: Social Science Press. (First Edition)
Forthcoming Edited Volumes:
Grover, Shalini and Qureshi, Kaveri. Editors, Forthcoming. Divorce Portals: The Post-Divorce in Asian Contexts. Submitted full proposal with draft chapters to Rutgers University Press. Afterword: Professor Janet Carsten, University of Edinburgh.
Grover, Shalini, Jeffery, Patricia and Chambers, Thomas. Editors, Forthcoming. Women’s Paid Domestic-Care Labour: New Currents and Movements in India. Delhi: Zubaan and Chicago University Press.
Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Encyclopaedia:
Grover, Shalini and Schliewe, Sanna. 2024. Trailing Spouses (India). In Ledeneva, Alena, Teague, Elizabeth, Matijevic Petra, Moise Marco Gian, Majda Piotr and Toqmadi Malika (Editors) Global Encyclopaedia of Informality. London: University College London Press (UCL), pp. 406-409. Open Access
Grover, Shalini. 2024. ‘Love Unturned’: Female Solidarity and Friendships among Lower Caste Middle-Aged Women in India. In, Chaudhry Shruti, Gorringe Hugo and Govinda Radhika (Editors) Gender in South Asia and Beyond: A Festschrift in Honour of Patricia Jeffery. Delhi: Zubaan and University of Chicago Press.
Grover, Shalini. 2023. Family-Arranged Marriages in Globalizing India: Shifting Scripts of Desire, Infidelity and Emotional Compatibility. In, Berta, Peter (Editor) Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance and Change. New York and London: Rutgers University Press, pp. 159-175.
Grover, Shalini. 2023. Family-Arranged Marriages in Globalizing India: Shifting Scripts of Desire, Infidelity and Emotional Compatibility. In, Berta, Peter (Editor) Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance and Change. New York and London: Rutgers University Press, pp. 159-175.
Chakraborty, Satyasikha and Grover, Shalini. 2023. Care-Work for Colonial and Contemporary White Families in India: Racialized Romanticization of the Ayah. Journal of Cultural Dynamics. 34 (4): 297-319. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09213740221144045
Grover, Shalini. 2019. Streamlining Paid Domestic Labour in Postcolonial India: The New Female All-Rounder in Master-Servant Expatriate Relationships. In, Sinha, Nitin, Varma, Nitin and Jha, Pankaj (Editors) Servants Past, Late-Eighteenth to Twentieth Century South Asia Volume 11. Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
https://orientblackswan.com/opaccess
Grover, Shalini. 2018. Conjugality and Marital Dissolution in Historical Perspective. In, Srivastava, Sanjay, Arif, Yasmeen and Abraham, Janaki (Editors) Critical Themes in Indian Sociology. Delhi: Sage Publications. 50th Anniversary Commemorative Volume of Contributions to Indian Sociology.
https://sk.sagepub.com/books/critical-themes-in-indian-sociology/i1709.xml
Grover, Shalini. 2018. English-speaking and Educated Female Domestic Workers in Contemporary India: New Managerial Roles, Social Mobility and Persistent Inequality. Journal of South Asian Development (JSAD). 13 (2): 186-209.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0973174118788008 (Sage)
Grover Shalini, Chambers, Thomas, Jeffery, Patricia (Editors). 2018. Introduction to the Special Issue: Portraits of Women’s Paid Domestic-Care Labour: Ethnographic Studies from Globalizing India. Journal of South Asian Development (JSAD). 13 (2): 1-18.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0973174118793782 (Sage)
Grover, Shalini. 2018. Who is an Expatriate? Euro-American Identities, Race and Integration in Postcolonial India. In, Schliewe Sanna, Chaudhary Nandita and Giuseppina (Editors) Cultural Psychology of Intervention in the Globalized World. USA, Charlotte: Information Age Publishing, pp. 283-297.
Grover, Shalini and Schliewe, Sanna. 2018. Trailing Spouses (India) Global Informality Project led by School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Wikipedia On-Line.
Grover, Shalini. 2017. Jural Relations of Middle-Class Marriage and Women as Legal Subjects in the Imaginary of “New India.” The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA). 28 (3): 249-393.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/taja.12188/abstract (Wiley)
Grover, Shalini. 2017. Revisiting the Devyani Khobragade Controversy: The Value of Domestic Labour in the Global South. In ‘Voices’ from Asian Feminist Activism, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies (AJWS). 23 (1): 121-128.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/12259276.2017.1279892 (Taylor and Francis)
Grover, Shalini. 2014. Purani aur nai shaadi: Separation, Divorce and Remarriage Amongst Delhi’s Urban Poor (reprint). In, Kaur, Ravinder and Palriwala, Rajni (Editors) Marrying in South Asia: Shifting Concepts, Changing Practices in a Globalizing World. Delhi: Orient Blackswan, pp 311-333.
Grover, Shalini. 2011. Purani aur Nai Shaadi: Separation, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Lives of the Urban Poor in New Delhi. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies (AJWS). 17 (1): 67-99.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/12259276.2011.11666103 (Taylor and Francis)
Grover, Shalini. 2009. Lived Experiences: Marriage, Notions of Love, and Kinship Support Amongst Poor Women in Delhi. Contributions to Indian Sociology (CIS). 43 (1): 1–33.
http://cis.sagepub.com/content/43/1/1.abstract (Sage)
Selected Reviews of my Book (Marriage, Love, Caste, and Kinship):
Jonathan Parry. 2013. (London School of Economics and Political Science). Contributions to Indian Sociology. 47 (1):141-3.
Kabita Mary Chakraborty. 2013. (University of York). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 19: 894-4.
Shruti Chaudhry. 2013. (University of Edinburgh). Sociology. 47 (1): 204-5.
Nilika Mehrotra. 2013. (Jawaharlal Nehru University). Indian Anthropologist. 41 (2): 99-100.
Book Reviews Written by Grover:
Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anne Waldrop. 2015. Women, Gender, and Everyday Social Transformation in India (review), 2014, London and New York: Anthem Press. Gender and Development. Volume 23: 2. July.http://www.anthempress.com/women-gender-and-everyday-social-transformation-in-india
Pallavi Aiyar. Punjabi Parmesan. 2015. (Review, “Changing Equations”), 2013, New Delhi: Penguin. The Book Review. Volume xxxix (4) April: p20.
Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum. 2014. Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India (review), 2009, New Delhi: Oxford University New Delhi. Contributions to Indian Sociology. 48 (2): 284-286 http://cis.sagepub.com/content/48/2.toc.pdf
Livia, Holdven. 2012. Hindu Divorce: A Legal Anthropology (review), 2008, England: Ashgate, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies. 18 (2): 124-127
https://www.dbpia.co.kr/Journal/ArticleDetail/NODE02113848
Prem Chowdhry. 2007. Contentious Marriages, Eoping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India (review, “The Right to Choose If, Who and When to Marry”). Delhi: Oxford University Press, Economic and Political Weekly. XL11 (24): 2269–71.
http://www.epw.in/journal/2007/24/book-reviews/right-choose-if-who-and-when-marry.html
http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article6412
(Full review reproduced on-line in Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres)
Impact Writings for Media:
29 March 2023: Male Domestic-Care Workers Face Employer Apathy. Wire Media Article: https://thewire.in/labour/male-domestic-care-workers-employer-apathy
6th May 2020: Can Covid 19 Be A Game-Changer? Those Who Serve On the Frontline and Servant Loyalty During the Indian Mutiny of 1857. In Solidarity and Care: During the Covid – 19 Pandemic. Sociological Review. https://www.solidarityandcare.org/stories/can-covid-19-be-a-game-changer-those-who-serve-on-the-frontline-and-servant-loyalty-during-the-indian-mutiny-of 1857?fbclid=IwAR2TqSZatp9LFRcbDCMoypPfsAv_2cakpJy3WbFFqh6ZWHx9AO8I6pM4JNs
2018 (Episode 5): Capturing an Anthropologist’s Perspective, Shalini Grover, on the Urban Poor in India.’ Podcast on India and Development in www.inthefield.org
August 21st, 2017: Write-up of My New Revised Edition, Routledge United Kingdom, London School of Economics, South Asia Blog.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2017/08/21/marriage-love-caste-and-kinship-support-lived-experiences-of-the-urban-poor-in-india/
23rd August, 2016: Remembering ‘Badi Nani:’ A Pointer to Bygone Times at Delhi’s Connaught Place of the 1970s. The Hindu – Opinion - Open Page.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/open-page-remembering-badi-nani/article9020822.ece
14th September. 2015. Kabita Chakraborty and Shalini Grover. Illness and Hardship as Rites of Passage (a critique of neo-colonial fieldwork and privileged expatriate sojourns). SiliconAfrica.Com
http://www.siliconafrica.com/illness-and-hardship-as-rites-of-passage/
May 31, st 2015. Shalini Grover, Ellina Samantroy, and Nupur Dhingra Paiva. “New India’s” Inflexible Workforce – Caring is but Women’s Work. Kafila.
https://kafilabackup.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/new-indias-inflexible-workforce-caring-is-but-womens-work-shalini-grover-ellina-samantroy-nupur-dhingra-paiva/?iframe=true&preview=true
2012, 7th June. Do we over Idealise the Concepts of Family and Motherhood? Tehelka, Opinion.
http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main53.asp?filename=Fw070612OPINION.asp
Grover, Shalini. 2019. Streamlining Paid Domestic Labour in Postcolonial India: The New Female All-Rounder in Master-Servant Expatriate Relationships. In, Sinha, Nitin, Varma, Nitin and Jha, Pankaj (Editors) Servants Past, Late-Eighteenth to Twentieth Century South Asia Volume 11. Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
https://orientblackswan.com/opaccess
Grover, Shalini. 2018. Conjugality and Marital Dissolution in Historical Perspective. In, Srivastava, Sanjay, Arif, Yasmeen and Abraham, Janaki (Editors) Critical Themes in Indian Sociology. Delhi: Sage Publications. 50th Anniversary Commemorative Volume of Contributions to Indian Sociology.
https://sk.sagepub.com/books/critical-themes-in-indian-sociology/i1709.xml
Grover, Shalini. 2018. English-speaking and Educated Female Domestic Workers in Contemporary India: New Managerial Roles, Social Mobility and Persistent Inequality. Journal of South Asian Development (JSAD). 13 (2): 186-209.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0973174118788008 (Sage)
Grover Shalini, Chambers, Thomas, Jeffery, Patricia (Editors). 2018. Introduction to the Special Issue: Portraits of Women’s Paid Domestic-Care Labour: Ethnographic Studies from Globalizing India. Journal of South Asian Development (JSAD). 13 (2): 1-18.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0973174118793782 (Sage)
Grover, Shalini. 2018. Who is an Expatriate? Euro-American Identities, Race and Integration in Postcolonial India. In, Schliewe Sanna, Chaudhary Nandita and Giuseppina (Editors) Cultural Psychology of Intervention in the Globalized World. USA, Charlotte: Information Age Publishing, pp. 283-297.
Grover, Shalini and Schliewe, Sanna. 2018. Trailing Spouses (India) Global Informality Project led by School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Wikipedia On-Line.
Grover, Shalini. 2017. Jural Relations of Middle-Class Marriage and Women as Legal Subjects in the Imaginary of “New India.” The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA). 28 (3): 249-393.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/taja.12188/abstract (Wiley)
Grover, Shalini. 2017. Revisiting the Devyani Khobragade Controversy: The Value of Domestic Labour in the Global South. In ‘Voices’ from Asian Feminist Activism, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies (AJWS). 23 (1): 121-128.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/12259276.2017.1279892 (Taylor and Francis)
Grover, Shalini. 2014. Purani aur nai shaadi: Separation, Divorce and Remarriage Amongst Delhi’s Urban Poor (reprint). In, Kaur, Ravinder and Palriwala, Rajni (Editors) Marrying in South Asia: Shifting Concepts, Changing Practices in a Globalizing World. Delhi: Orient Blackswan, pp 311-333.
Grover, Shalini. 2011. Purani aur Nai Shaadi: Separation, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Lives of the Urban Poor in New Delhi. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies (AJWS). 17 (1): 67-99.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/12259276.2011.11666103 (Taylor and Francis)
Grover, Shalini. 2009. Lived Experiences: Marriage, Notions of Love, and Kinship Support Amongst Poor Women in Delhi. Contributions to Indian Sociology (CIS). 43 (1): 1–33.
http://cis.sagepub.com/content/43/1/1.abstract (Sage)
Selected Reviews of my Book (Marriage, Love, Caste, and Kinship):
Jonathan Parry. 2013. (London School of Economics and Political Science). Contributions to Indian Sociology. 47 (1):141-3.
Kabita Mary Chakraborty. 2013. (University of York). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 19: 894-4.
Shruti Chaudhry. 2013. (University of Edinburgh). Sociology. 47 (1): 204-5.
Nilika Mehrotra. 2013. (Jawaharlal Nehru University). Indian Anthropologist. 41 (2): 99-100.
Book Reviews Written by Grover:
Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anne Waldrop. 2015. Women, Gender, and Everyday Social Transformation in India (review), 2014, London and New York: Anthem Press. Gender and Development. Volume 23: 2. July.http://www.anthempress.com/women-gender-and-everyday-social-transformation-in-india
Pallavi Aiyar. Punjabi Parmesan. 2015. (Review, “Changing Equations”), 2013, New Delhi: Penguin. The Book Review. Volume xxxix (4) April: p20.
Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum. 2014. Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India (review), 2009, New Delhi: Oxford University New Delhi. Contributions to Indian Sociology. 48 (2): 284-286 http://cis.sagepub.com/content/48/2.toc.pdf
Livia, Holdven. 2012. Hindu Divorce: A Legal Anthropology (review), 2008, England: Ashgate, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies. 18 (2): 124-127
https://www.dbpia.co.kr/Journal/ArticleDetail/NODE02113848
Prem Chowdhry. 2007. Contentious Marriages, Eoping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India (review, “The Right to Choose If, Who and When to Marry”). Delhi: Oxford University Press, Economic and Political Weekly. XL11 (24): 2269–71.
http://www.epw.in/journal/2007/24/book-reviews/right-choose-if-who-and-when-marry.html
http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article6412
(Full review reproduced on-line in Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres)
Impact Writings for Media:
29 March 2023: Male Domestic-Care Workers Face Employer Apathy. Wire Media Article: https://thewire.in/labour/male-domestic-care-workers-employer-apathy
6th May 2020: Can Covid 19 Be A Game-Changer? Those Who Serve On the Frontline and Servant Loyalty During the Indian Mutiny of 1857. In Solidarity and Care: During the Covid – 19 Pandemic. Sociological Review. https://www.solidarityandcare.org/stories/can-covid-19-be-a-game-changer-those-who-serve-on-the-frontline-and-servant-loyalty-during-the-indian-mutiny-of 1857?fbclid=IwAR2TqSZatp9LFRcbDCMoypPfsAv_2cakpJy3WbFFqh6ZWHx9AO8I6pM4JNs
2018 (Episode 5): Capturing an Anthropologist’s Perspective, Shalini Grover, on the Urban Poor in India.’ Podcast on India and Development in www.inthefield.org
August 21st, 2017: Write-up of My New Revised Edition, Routledge United Kingdom, London School of Economics, South Asia Blog.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2017/08/21/marriage-love-caste-and-kinship-support-lived-experiences-of-the-urban-poor-in-india/
23rd August, 2016: Remembering ‘Badi Nani:’ A Pointer to Bygone Times at Delhi’s Connaught Place of the 1970s. The Hindu – Opinion - Open Page.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/open-page-remembering-badi-nani/article9020822.ece
14th September. 2015. Kabita Chakraborty and Shalini Grover. Illness and Hardship as Rites of Passage (a critique of neo-colonial fieldwork and privileged expatriate sojourns). SiliconAfrica.Com
http://www.siliconafrica.com/illness-and-hardship-as-rites-of-passage/
May 31, st 2015. Shalini Grover, Ellina Samantroy, and Nupur Dhingra Paiva. “New India’s” Inflexible Workforce – Caring is but Women’s Work. Kafila.
https://kafilabackup.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/new-indias-inflexible-workforce-caring-is-but-womens-work-shalini-grover-ellina-samantroy-nupur-dhingra-paiva/?iframe=true&preview=true
2012, 7th June. Do we over Idealise the Concepts of Family and Motherhood? Tehelka, Opinion.
http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main53.asp?filename=Fw070612OPINION.asp