Majumdar Marriage and Modernity

Family Values in Colonial Bengal
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9080-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 356 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

This cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in colonial Bengal shows that arranged marriage as it is practiced today is a modern practice from the colonial era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Majumdar, Rochona

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I. The Emergence of a Marriage Market

1. Looking for Brides and Grooms 23

2. Snehalata's Death: Questions of Dowry 54

Part II. Culture and the Marketplace

3. Marriage and Distinction: New Critiques of Vulgarity 93

4. The Not-Quite Bourgeois: The Couple Form and the Joint Family 126

Part III. Marriage and the Law

5. A Nineteenth-Century Debate: Law versus Ritual 167

6. Nationalizing the Joint Family: The Hindu Code Debate, 1955-56 206

Conclusion 238

Appendices

1. Wedding Invitations 244

2. Jewelry Catalogues 253

Notes 259

Glossary 301

Bibliography 311

Index 337

Über Autor(innen)

Rochona Majumdar is Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She is a co-editor of From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition.