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Marriage and modernity : family values in colonial Bengal / Rochona Majumdar.
Material type:
TextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, c2009.Description: xii, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780198063834 (hardcover)
- 9780822344629 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780822344780 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 306.8109541409034 MAJ 23 021593
- HQ670.15.B46 M35 2009
Contents:
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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Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 306.8109541409034 MAJ 021593 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 021593 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index.
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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