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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Majumdar, Rochona
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Eheschliessung
Ehe
Marriage (Hindu law)
Marriage.
Families.
Arranged marriage.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Marriage.
Mariage (Droit hindou)
Familles > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire.
Mariage > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire.
Mariage arrange > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mariage arrange > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Families > India > Bengal > History.
Marriage > India > Bengal > History.
Arranged marriage > India > Bengal > History > 20th century.
Arranged marriage > India > Bengal > History > 19th century.
Bengalen
India > Bengal.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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