Marriage and modernity : family values in colonial Bengal /

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An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenges the assumption that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Majumdar demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent changes that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Majumdar, Rochona
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
1800-1999
Geschichte 1870-1956.
Arranged marriage > India > Bengal > History > 19th century.
Arranged marriage > India > Bengal > History > 20th century.
Marriage > India > Bengal > History.
Families > India > Bengal > History.
Marriage (Hindu law)
Mariage arrangé > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mariage arrangé > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mariage > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire.
Familles > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire.
Mariage (Droit hindou)
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Marriage.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Arranged marriage
Families
Marriage
Ehe
Eheschließung
India > Bengal
Bengalen
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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