Marriage and modernity : family values in colonial Bengal /
Rochona Majumdar.
- 1st ed
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2009.
- xii, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.