Poushali Basak is a PhD scholar at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay and member of Sappho for Equality, Feminists in Resistance in Kolkata and Forum against Oppression of Women in Bombay.
The endogamous family has survived because it chooses not to support single women, queer and trans persons, sex workers, or anyone wanting to marry outside of caste and religious norms. Only when…
