UID:
kobvindex_DGP9720141190
Format:
XVIII, 289 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
ISBN:
9780511851940
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Indian history and society
Content:
From the early days of colonial rule in India, the British established a two-tier system of legal administration. Matters deemed secular were subject to British legal norms, while suits relating to the family were adjudicated according to Hindu or Muslim law, known as personal law. This important new study analyses the system of personal law in colonial India through a re-examination of women's rights. Focusing on Hindu law in western India, it challenges existing scholarship, showing how – far from being a system based on traditional values – Hindu law was developed around ideas of liberalism, and that this framework encouraged questions about equality, women's rights, the significance of bodily difference, and more broadly the relationship between state and society. Rich in archival sources, wide-ranging and theoretically informed, this book illuminates how personal law came to function as an organising principle of colonial governance and of nationalist political imaginations
Content:
Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Map of the Bombay presidency and British India -- Introduction -- Economic governance -- Property between law and political economy -- The dilemmas of social economy -- The politics of personal law -- Hindu law as a regime of rights -- Custom and human value in the debates on Hindu marriage -- Law, community and belonging -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107010376
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107010376
Language:
English
