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Marriage and modernity : family values in colonial Bengal / Rochona Majumdar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Majumdar, Rochona.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arranged marriage--India--Bengal--History--19th century.
- Arranged marriage.
- Arranged marriage--India--Bengal--History--20th century.
- Marriage--India--Bengal--History.
- Marriage.
- Families--India--Bengal--History.
- Families.
- Marriage (Hindu law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (357 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923760
- 9781282923768
- 1282923765
- 9780822390800
- 0822390809
- OCLC:
- 317321650
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