TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sturman,Rachel
TI  - The Government of social life in colonial India: liberalism, religious law, and women's rights 
T2  - Cambridge studies in Indian history and society
SN  - 9781107010376
AV  - HQ1742 .S7888 2012
U1  - 954 23
PY  - 2013///, c2012
CY  - New York, NY, New Delhi
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Religious law
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1206/2012000798-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1206/2012000798-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1206/2012000798-t.html
ER  -