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Marriage and modernity family values in colonial Bengal

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham Duke University Press 2009ISBN:
  • 9780822344780
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ670.15.B46 M35 2009
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.
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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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