The Hindu family and the emergence of modern India : law, citizenship and community / Eleanor Newbigin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newbigin, Eleanor, 1980- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Indian history and society.

Cambridge studies in Indian history and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--India--History--21st century.

Hindus--India--Social life and customs.

Hindus--Legal status, laws, etc.

Patriarchy--India.

Women--India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Hindu Family & the Emergence of Modern India

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 1955 and 1956 the Government of India passed four Hindu Law Acts to reform and codify Hindu family law. Scholars have understood these acts as a response to growing concern about women's rights but, in a powerful re-reading of their history, this book traces the origins of the Hindu law reform project to changes in the political-economy of late colonial rule. The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India considers how questions regarding family structure, property rights and gender relations contributed to the development of representative politics, and how, in solving these questions, India's secular and state power structures were consequently drawn into a complex and unique relationship with Hindu law. In this comprehensive and illuminating resource for scholars and students, Newbigin demonstrates the significance of gender and economy to the history of twentieth-century democratic government, as it emerged in India and beyond.

Contents:

List of maps

List of tables

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Making the modern Indian family : property rights and the individual in Colonial Law

Financing a new citizenship : the Hindu family, income tax and political representation in late-colonial India

Wives and property or wives as property? : the Hindu family and women's property rights

The Hindu code bill : creating the modern, Hindu legal subject

B.R. Ambedkar's Code Bill : caste, marriage and post-colonial Indian citizenship

Family, nation and economy : establishing a post-colonial patriarchy

Conclusion

Appendix: law members involved with the Hindu code bill 1941-56

Bibliography.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89272-X

1-107-42461-5

1-316-64856-7

1-107-42259-0

1-107-41951-4

1-107-42068-7

1-107-41685-X

1-139-79536-8

1-107-41818-6

OCLC:

860879476