iIntroduction/iuPART I: Indian Women's Negotiations over Inheritance/u1. Beyond Property Refusal: Indian Women's Discourses of Inheritance by iSrimati Basu/i2. Negotiating Rights and Relationships: Muslim Women and Inheritance by iNasreen Fazalbhoy/iuPART II: Property Negotiations during Divorce Proceedings/u3. Bargaining in the Shadow of Law: Negotiating Property Rights in Divorce Proceedings by iFlavia Agnes/i4. Women's Engagement with Matrimonial Property Law in Goa by iAlbertina Almeida/iuPART III: Regulating Marriages: Community and State Interventions/u5. Crossing Communities: Religious Conversion, Rights in Marriage and Personal Law by iSamita Sen/iuPART IV: Women's Negotiations within Communities and the State/u6. Local and Customary Forums: Adapting and Innovating Rules of Formal Law by iVasudha Nagaraj/i7. Towards Understanding Muslim Social Reform: Jamait-ul-Mommat and its iFatwas/i for Women by iA.

Suneetha/i8. Abortion: Feminist Dilemmas by iNivedita Menon/iuPART V: Violence against Women, Criminal Procedures, and Negotiation of Rights/u9. Listening to Women's Voices: Domestic Violence and Women's Negotiations with Law and Public Institutions by iAnjali Dave/i10. Justice is a Secret: 'Compromise' in Rape Trials by iPratiksha Baxi/iuPART VI: Negotiating 'Vice' and 'Immorality' through State and Civil Society Structures/u11. Women in Sex Work: Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad (VAMP) by iMeena Seshu/i12. Citizenship at the Margins: Balancing Visibility and Invisibility: The Case of the Bar Dancer by iFlavia Agnes/i13. Waving the 'Colour Purple' in the Rainbow Parade by iChayanika Shah/iiIndex/i.