The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India: Law, Citizenship and Community

ISBN-13: 9781107037830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 277 str.

Eleanor Newbigin

Opis

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

Spis treści

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.