Marriage and modernity : family values in colonial Bengal / Rochona Majumdar.
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TextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, c2009Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780198063834Subject(s): Arranged marriage -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 19th century | Arranged marriage -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 20th century | Marriage -- India -- Bengal -- History | Families -- India -- Bengal -- History | Marriage (Hindu law)DDC classification: 306.8109541409034 Online resources: Book review (H-Net)
Contents:
Looking for brides and grooms -- Snehalata's death: questions of dowry -- Marriage and distinction: new critiques of vulgarity -- The not-quite bourgeois: the couple form and the joint family -- A nineteenth-century debate: law versus rituals -- Nationalizing the joint family: the Hindu code debate, 1955/56.
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| JKRC Social Science Complex | JKRC Social Science Complex | 306.8109541409034 MAJ (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Acc. No. 810 | IDS1486 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index.
Looking for brides and grooms -- Snehalata's death: questions of dowry -- Marriage and distinction: new critiques of vulgarity -- The not-quite bourgeois: the couple form and the joint family -- A nineteenth-century debate: law versus rituals -- Nationalizing the joint family: the Hindu code debate, 1955/56.
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