Kinship and Transformations in Law: An Assessment of Ten Years of Indian Jurisprudence

In the transforming social and political times, kinship is also an ever-changing relation and institution. This paper, intends to look at judgements from Indian courts over the last 10 years to assess what patterns are being witnessed in interrogating heterosexual kinship. Judgments engaging with queer kinships, where there is a reimagined legitimation of a domestic arrangement in the nature of family, or non humans are understood as children or family. By engaging with these changing meanings of kinship, this paper intends to argue that kinship jurisprudence is transformative and sometimes defying the dominant societal patterns related to heterosexual, usually arranged marriages.