Majumdar, Rochona.

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.

9780198063834

2008051091


Arranged marriage--History--India--Bengal--19th century.
Arranged marriage--History--India--Bengal--20th century.
Marriage--History.--India--Bengal
Families--History.--India--Bengal
Marriage (Hindu law)

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