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9%OFFMytheli Sreenivas - Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India - 9780253219725 - V9780253219725
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Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India

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Description for Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India Paperback. Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India Series: Contemporary Indian Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, 4 b&w photos, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
The family was at the center of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu, India. Emerging ideas about love, marriage, and desire were linked to caste politics, the colonial economy, and nationalist agitation. In the first detailed historical study of Tamil families in colonial India, Wives, Widows, and Concubines maps changes in the late colonial family in relation to the region's culture, politics, and economy. Among professional and mercantile elites, the conjugal relationship displaced the extended family as the focal point of household dynamics. Conjugality provided a language with which women laid claim to new rights, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Contemporary Indian Studies
Condition
New
Weight
335g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253219725
SKU
V9780253219725
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About Mytheli Sreenivas
Mytheli Sreenivas is Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies at The Ohio State University.

Reviews for Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India
Overall, this book is a valuable addition in the list of historical research works on the issues of women, community politics and colonial legislative ventures in southern India. The research related strength of the book is that it draws information from a variety of primary sources, ranging from archives of court cases, women's narratives and women's writings in the magazines. ... Read more

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