The Government of social life in colonial India :
Sturman, Rachel, 1969-
The Government of social life in colonial India : liberalism, religious law, and women's rights / Rachel Sturman. - New York, NY ; New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2013, c2012. - xviii, 289 p. : map ; 24 cm - Cambridge studies in Indian history and society .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-270) and index.
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.
This book 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.
9781107010376 9781107038196
2012-000798
Women's rights--History.--India
Religious law--History.--India
India--Social conditions.
Great Britain--Colonies.
HQ1742 / .S7888 2012
954 / STU
The Government of social life in colonial India : liberalism, religious law, and women's rights / Rachel Sturman. - New York, NY ; New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2013, c2012. - xviii, 289 p. : map ; 24 cm - Cambridge studies in Indian history and society .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-270) and index.
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.
This book 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.
9781107010376 9781107038196
2012-000798
Women's rights--History.--India
Religious law--History.--India
India--Social conditions.
Great Britain--Colonies.
HQ1742 / .S7888 2012
954 / STU