Vol. 9, Issue 4, Part B (2023)

Abstract
While examining the various nuances of the existing discourse on the ‘honour crimes,’ the study provides a comprehensive understanding of violence by throwing light on multiple actors, processes, forms and dimensions of such violence in India. It emphasizes the need of examining structural and contextual nature of such violence; Particularly the underlying calculus of political economy which explains the rationale behind growing anxieties to control female sexuality and, the power dynamics among various communities which are involved in such violence. Based on extensive and in–depth case studies of Haryana, such analyses unfold the complicity and contestation of community and state in claiming authenticity in controlling sexualities of its constituent members.