Marriage and modernity: family values in colonial Bengal Rochona Majumdar.

By: Majumdar, RochonaPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, c2009Description: xii, 343 pISBN: 9780822344780Subject(s): Arranged marriage -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 19th century | Arranged marriage -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 20th century | Marriage -- India -- Bengal -- History | Families -- India -- Bengal -- History | Marriage (Hindu law)DDC classification: 306.8109 LOC classification: HQ670.15.B46 | M35 2009Online resources: Full text available from e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 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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