Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining  Gender and Kinship in North India
"Belongs to a new genre of writing in literature, history and anthropology which listens to the voices of real women and is led by that listening to more sophisticated theoretical formulations. . . . Most accounts of North Indian kinship are black and white; Raheja shows all the shades of grey, the tensions and ambiguities of a structure in which everyone has multiple roles to negotiate. She is illuminating on the connection between pollution and the giving of gifts, especially the gift of a daughter in marriage: when gift giving is understood as passing pollution on to another and away from oneself, it is indeed more blessed to give than to receive."--"Asian Studies Review (Australia)