Marriage and Modernity : Family Values in Colonial Bengal
Rochona. Majumdar
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Durham : : Duke University Press, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (357 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I The Emergence of a Marriage Market; Chapter 1 Looking for Brides and Grooms; Chapter 2 Snehalata's Death: Questions of Dowry; Part II Culture and the Marketplace; Chapter 3 Marriage and Distinction: New Critiques of Vulgarity; Chapter 4 The Not-Quite Bourgeois: The Couple Form and the Joint Family; Part III Marriage and the Law; Chapter 5 A Nineteenth-Century Debate: Law versus Rituals; Chapter 6 Nationalizing the Joint Family: The Hindu Code Debates, 1955-56; Conclusion; 1. Wedding Invitations; 2. Jewelry Catalogues; Notes; Glossary. - BibliographyIndex. - 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.
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| Geografisk emneord | Kolkata : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01903
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| ISBN | 9780822344629. - 9780822344780
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