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Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India (Contemporary Indian Studies) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mytheli Sreenivas
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1937373
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 169
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0253219728
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.85095482
EAN: 9780253219725
ASIN: 0253219728
Publication Date: May 2008
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The family was at the center of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu, India. Emerging ideas about love, marriage, and desire were linked to caste politics, the colonial economy, and nationalist agitation. In the first detailed study of the family in Tamil history, Wives, Widows, and Concubines maps changes in the late colonial family in relation to the region's culture, politics, and economy. Among professional and mercantile elites, the conjugal relationship displaced the extended family as the focal point of household dynamics. Conjugality provided a language with which women laid claim to new rights, even as the structures of the conjugal family reinscribed women's oppression inside and outside marriage.
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