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The Hindu family and the emergence of modern India : law, citizenship and community /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ;
22. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.