Author: Janaki NairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Women and Law in Colonial India
Author: Janaki NairThe Government of Social Life in Colonial India
Author: Rachel SturmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107010373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book analyses religious law in colonial India, exploring how it encouraged gender equality and a rethinking of the relationship between state and society.
Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India
Author: Indrani ChatterjeePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This volume shows that slaves acquired by some ruling households were incorporated into patterns of kinship. Colonial abolitionist measures did not even try to release these slaves; they restructured ideologies of marriage and succession instead and eroded the status of slave-descended members over time.
Women in Colonial India
Author: Jayasankar KrishnamurtyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This collection of essays on Indian women is an important contribution to both Indian historiography and feminist studies. The book covers such topics as the Hindu Widow's Remarriage act of 1856, female infanticide, property rights, social welfare systems, and the struggle for the right to vote.
The Scandal of the State
Author: Rajeswari Sunder RajanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822330486
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Women in custody -- Women in law -- Killing women.
Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
Author: Jessica HinchyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110849255X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.
Personal Law, Property, and the State in Colonial India
Author: Rachel SturmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781139417693
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Law and the Economy in Colonial India
Author: Tirthankar RoyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022638764X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
By accessibly recounting and analyzing the unique experience of institutions in colonial India--which were influenced heavily by both British Common Law and indigenous Indian practices and traditions--Law and the Economy in Colonial India sheds new light on what exactly fosters the types of institutions that have been key to economic development throughout world history more generally. The culmination and years of research, the book goes through a range of examples, including textiles, opium, tea, indigo, tenancy, credit, and land mortgage, to show how economic laws in colonial India were shaped neither by imported European ideas about how colonies should be ruled nor indigenous institutions, but by the practice of producing and trading. The book is an essential addition to Indian history and to some of the most fundamental questions in economic history.
Sex and the Family in Colonial India
Author: Durba GhoshPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521857048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Study of conjugal relationships between Indian women and British men in colonial India.
Personal Law, Property, and the State in Colonial India
Author: Rachel Lara SturmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781139423830
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Analyses religious law in colonial India, exploring how it encouraged gender equality and a rethinking of the relationship between state and society.