Wives, widows, and concubines : the conjugal family ideal in colonial India

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Wives, widows, and concubines : the conjugal family ideal in colonial India

Mytheli Sreenivas

（Contemporary Indian studies）

Indiana University Press, c2008

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-161) and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780253219725

内容説明

The family was at the center of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu, India. Emerging ideas about love, marriage, and desire were linked to caste politics, the colonial economy, and nationalist agitation. In the first detailed historical study of Tamil families in colonial India, Wives, Widows, and Concubines maps changes in the late colonial family in relation to the region's culture, politics, and economy. Among professional and mercantile elites, the conjugal relationship displaced the extended family as the focal point of household dynamics. Conjugality provided a language with which women laid claim to new rights, even as the structures of the conjugal family reinscribed women's oppression inside and outside marriage. Published in association with the American Institute of Indian Studies.

目次

Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction: Situating Families 1. Colonizing the Family: Kinship, Household, and State 2. Conjugality and Capital: Defining Women's Rights to Family Property 3. Nationalizing Marriage: Indian and Dravidian Politics of Conjugality 4. Marrying for Love: Emotion and Desire in Women's Print Culture Conclusion: Families and History Notes Bibliography Index
巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780253351180

内容説明

The family was at the center of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu, India. Emerging ideas about love, marriage, and desire were linked to caste politics, the colonial economy, and nationalist agitation. In the first detailed study of the family in Tamil history, Wives, Widows, and Concubines maps changes in the late colonial family in relation to the region's culture, politics, and economy. Among professional and mercantile elites, the conjugal relationship displaced the extended family as the focal point of household dynamics. Conjugality provided a language with which women laid claim to new rights, even as the structures of the conjugal family reinscribed women's oppression inside and outside marriage.

目次

  • Note on Transliteration Introduction: Situating Families
  • 1. Colonizing the Family: Kinship, Household, and State
  • 2. Conjugality and Capital: Defining Women's Rights to Family Property
  • 3. Families and Nations: Indian and Dravidian Politics of Conjugality
  • 4. Marrying for Love: Emotion and Desire in Women's Print Culture
  • Conclusion: Families and History Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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