Against high-caste polygamy

• Verfasst von: Īśvaracandra Bidyāsāgara [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Against high-caste polygamy
• Titelzusatz: a colonial-era appeal to abolish Kulinism in Bengal : an annotated translation
• Mitwirkende: Hatcher, Brian A. [ÜbersetzerIn]
• Werktitel: Bahubibāha rahita haoẏā ucita ki na
• Verf.angabe: Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar ; translated by Brian A. Hatcher
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: XIV, 175 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: AAR religion in translation
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Schrift/Sprache: Includes Quotqtions in Sanskrit and Bengali, romanized
• ISBN: 978-0-19-767590-8
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197675908.001.0001
• Schlagwörter: (g)Bengalen / (s)Brahmanen / (s)Polygamie / (s)Frau / (s)Recht / (z)Geschichte 1800-1871
• Schlagwörter: (s)Sanskrit / (s)Witwe / (s)Wiederverheiratung
• Schlagwörter: (s)Hinduismus / (s)Dharmashastra / (s)Witwe / (s)Wiederverheiratung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Bidyāsāgara, Īśvaracandra, - 1820-1891: Against high-caste polygamy. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023. - 1 online resource
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Vidyasagar, Ishvarchandra: Against High-Caste Polygamy. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023. - 1 online resource (193 pages)
• Sach-SW: Colonialism & imperialism
• Sach-SW: Hinduism
• Sach-SW: Hinduismus
• Sach-SW: Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
• Sach-SW: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
• Sach-SW: POL045000
• Sach-SW: RELIGION / Hinduism / General
• Zeit-SW: 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.)
• Zeit-SW: 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.)
• Zeit-SW: c 1700 to c 1800
• Zeit-SW: c 1800 to c 1900
• K10plus-PPN: 1847801390

Abstract

"Against High-Caste Polygamy offers a complete, annotated translation of Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar's first book arguing against the practice of high-caste Kulin marriage in Bengal. The translation is based on the text of the first edition of Bahuvivaha rahita haoya uchita ki na etadvishayaka vichara, published from the Sanskrit Press in 1871 (Samvat 1928); henceforth simply Bahuvivaha. I have relied on the version of the text as found in the second volume of Gopal Haldar's Vidyasagar-rachanasamgraha, as well as on a digitized version of the 1871 first edition available online"--

Abstract

Against High-Caste Polygamy offers a complete, annotated translation of Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar's 1871 tract arguing against the practice of high-caste Kulin marriage in Bengal. Vidyasagar published this work fifteen years after passage of the Hindu Widow's Remarriage Act, which owed so much to his earlier reform leadership. However, in the wake of the Rebellion of 1857 British and Indian attitudes toward official intervention in customary practices underwent a sea change.The British were increasingly reluctant to create unrest, while many Indian leaders began to question the legitimacy of seeking government assistance for social change. The age of active collaboration between the British officials and Indian reformers had passed. In Against High-Caste Polygamy, Vidyasagar demonstrates both his continued faith in an earlier approach to reform and his frustration at the new tenor of the times.Against High-Caste Polygamy is not a treatise on polygamy in general. Rather, it addresses a subset of polygamous marriage as practiced among the highest Hindu castes in eastern India, or what then constituted the Bengal Presidency of British India. This particular form of polygamy came to be known in English as Kulinism, from the term for a person who holds high clan rank (known in Bengali as a kulina). As Vidyasagar shows, Kulinism rests on a highly articulated and historically entrenched system of status and rank that trapped women in wretched domestic situations. Against High-Caste Polygamy is Vidysagar's attempt to open the eyes of Bengali readers as well as the government to the extent and dire ramifications of polygamous practices that often left women ostracized, neglected, and abused. This translation makes Vidyasagar's polemic available to English-language readers for the first time. It features a scholarly introduction, extensive notes, and a variety of supplementary critical tools