This volume discusses how the process of political democratization and radically altered legal enactments, especially relating to marriage and inheritance, have changed the dynamics of power relations, primarily in North India.
This volume discusses how the process of political democratization and radically altered legal enactments, especially relating to marriage and inheritance, have changed the dynamics of power relations, primarily in North India.
Prem Chowdhry is Independent researcher and former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
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* List of Tables * Acknowledgements * Introduction * SECTION I - State, Law, and Economy: The Colonial Flux * 1. The Advantages of Backwardness: Colonial Policy and Agriculture in Haryana * 2. Jat Domination in South-east Punjab: Socio-economic * Basis of Jat Politics in a Punjab District * 3. Contours of Communalism: Religion, Caste, and Identity in South-east Punjab * 4. Contesting Claims and Counter-claims: Questions of the Inheritance and Sexuality of Widows in a Colonial State * 5. Fluctuating Fortunes of Wives: Creeping Rigidity in Inter-caste Marriages in the Colonial Period * SECTION II - Caste, Community, and Gender: The Post-colonial Constraints * 6. High Participation and Low Evaluation: Women and Work in Rural Haryana * 7. Persistence of a Custom: Cultural Centrality of Ghunghat * 8. Ideology, Culture, and Hierarchy: Expenditure- Consumption Patterns in Rural Households * 9. A Matter of Two Shares: A Daughter's Claim to Patrilineal Property in Rural North India * 10. Private Lives, State Intervention: Cases of Runaway Marriage in Rural North India * 11. Caste Panchayats and the Policing of Marriage in Haryana: Enforcing Kinship and Territorial Exogamy * 12. 'First our Jobs then our Girls': The Dominant Caste * Perceptions on the 'Rising' Dalits * Index
* List of Tables * Acknowledgements * Introduction * SECTION I - State, Law, and Economy: The Colonial Flux * 1. The Advantages of Backwardness: Colonial Policy and Agriculture in Haryana * 2. Jat Domination in South-east Punjab: Socio-economic * Basis of Jat Politics in a Punjab District * 3. Contours of Communalism: Religion, Caste, and Identity in South-east Punjab * 4. Contesting Claims and Counter-claims: Questions of the Inheritance and Sexuality of Widows in a Colonial State * 5. Fluctuating Fortunes of Wives: Creeping Rigidity in Inter-caste Marriages in the Colonial Period * SECTION II - Caste, Community, and Gender: The Post-colonial Constraints * 6. High Participation and Low Evaluation: Women and Work in Rural Haryana * 7. Persistence of a Custom: Cultural Centrality of Ghunghat * 8. Ideology, Culture, and Hierarchy: Expenditure- Consumption Patterns in Rural Households * 9. A Matter of Two Shares: A Daughter's Claim to Patrilineal Property in Rural North India * 10. Private Lives, State Intervention: Cases of Runaway Marriage in Rural North India * 11. Caste Panchayats and the Policing of Marriage in Haryana: Enforcing Kinship and Territorial Exogamy * 12. 'First our Jobs then our Girls': The Dominant Caste * Perceptions on the 'Rising' Dalits * Index
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