TY  - BOOK
AU  - Majumdar,Rochona
TI  - Marriage and modernity: family values in colonial Bengal 
SN  - 9780198063834
U1  - 306.8109541409034 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Arranged marriage
KW  - India
KW  - Bengal
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Families
KW  - Marriage (Hindu law)
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25828
ER  -