Marriage and modernity

• Verfasst von: Majumdar, Rochona
• Titel: Marriage and modernity
• Titelzusatz: family values in colonial Bengal
• Verf.angabe: Rochona Majumdar
• Verlagsort: Durham [u.a.]
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• E-Jahr: 2009
• Jahr: c2009
• Umfang: XII, 343 S
• Illustrationen: Ill
• Format: 24 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index
• Inhalt: 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.
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4462-9
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4478-0
• Schlagwörter: (g)Bengalen / (s)Ehe / (z)Geschichte 1870-1956
• Schlagwörter: (g)Bengalen / (s)Eheschließung / (z)Geschichte 1870-1956
• Schlagwörter: (g)Bengalen / (s)Familie / (s)Ehe / (s)Wertorientierung
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: LB 41385
• RVK-Notation: LB 60385
• Sach-SW: Bengalen
• Sach-SW: Familie
• Sach-SW: Ehe
• Sach-SW: Wertorientierung
• Sach-SW: Geschichte 1880-1956
• K10plus-PPN: 587633840

Abstract

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