The Legal Conundrum: Analysing the Legal Dimensions of Marital Rape in India

Author(s)	Ms. Divya Khanna
Country	India
Abstract	Despite increasing awareness around combating sexual violence, rape within marriage remains both legally and socially invisible in India. This article seeks to highlight how the legal reform is quintessential for social reform to follow, especially in the context of India. The normalisation of marital rape is a direct consequence of gender socialisation, which reinforces dichotomised ideas of masculinity and femininity from generation to generation. The result is the conditioning of women into accepting roles of subordination and the invisibilisation of the sexual coercion within the institution of marriage. This article aims to problematise the institution of marriage and unravel the social and legal silence around marital rape by drawing upon feminist theoretical frameworks and legal analysis.
Keywords	Marital Rape, marriage, criminalisation
Field	Sociology > Politics
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On	2026-07-06

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