Saumya Maheshwari and Nidah Kaiser

Saumya Maheshwari is a doctoral researcher at SOAS, University of London, where she studies India's "love jihad" laws. Her work examines the social life of these laws through an ethnographic enquiry into how individuals in interfaith relationships experience, navigate, and respond to them. Nidah holds a doctorate in Politics and International Studies from SOAS, University of London. Her research examines how legal frameworks and security structures shape violence against minorities. She is currently a researcher on a Sciences Po project on journalism and democracy and teaches at SOAS and King’s College London.

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Policing Love: Law, Institutions and the Limits of Autonomy (Part 1 of 6)

Policing Love: Law, Institutions and the Limits of Autonomy (Part 1 of 6)

In June 2025, we convened a workshop at SOAS, funded by SOAS Law School, and titled Policing Intimacies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Regulation of Love, Marriage, and Inter-community Relationships. Our initial intention was to ...
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