Marriage and modernity family values in colonial Bengal
Majumdar, Rochona
Marriage and modernity family values in colonial Bengal - Durham Duke University Press 2009
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.
9780822344780
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)
HQ670.15.B46 / M35 2009
Marriage and modernity family values in colonial Bengal - Durham Duke University Press 2009
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.
9780822344780
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)
HQ670.15.B46 / M35 2009