Eleanor Newbigin

The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of how the development of representative politics in late-colonial India transformed notions of family, gender and religious community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781316648568
• ISBN-10: 1316648567
• Artikelnr.: 47747476

Autorenporträt

Eleanor Newbigin is Lecturer in Modern South Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where she teaches courses on colonial and postcolonial South Asian history to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Prior to this, between 2007 and 2010, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. She has published articles in Modern Asian Studies and the Indian Economic and Social History Review.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Making the modern Indian family: property rights and the individual in
colonial law; 2. Financing a new citizenship: the Hindu family, income tax
and political representation in late-colonial India; 3. Wives and property
or wives as property? The Hindu family and women's property rights; 4. The
Hindu Code Bill: creating the modern, Hindu legal subject; 5. B. R.
Ambedkar's Code Bill: caste, marriage and post-colonial Indian citizenship;
6. Family, nation and economy: establishing a post-colonial patriarchy.