| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 343 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 led to a valorization of the larger, intergenerational family as a revered, "ancient" social institution, with arranged marriage as the apotheosis of an "Indian" tradition. She meticulously documents the ways that these newly embraced "traditions"--The extended family and arranged marriage - entered into competition and conversation with other emerging forms of kinship such as the modern unit of the couple, with both models participating promiscuously in the new "marketplace" for marriages, where matrimonial advertisements in the print media and the payment of dowry played central roles. Majumdar argues that together the kinship structures newly asserted as distinctively Indian and the emergence of the marriage market constituted what was and still is modern about marriages in India |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Arranged marriage -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 19th century
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Arranged marriage -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 20th century
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Marriage -- India -- Bengal -- History
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Families -- India -- Bengal -- History
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Marriage (Hindu law)
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Marriage.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Arranged marriage
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Families
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Marriage
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Marriage (Hindu law)
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Ehe
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Eheschließung
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India -- Bengal
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Bengalen
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008051091 |
| ISBN |
9780822390800 |
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0822390809 |
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1282923765 |
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9781282923768 |
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9786612923760 |
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6612923768 |
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