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The Hindu family and the emergence of modern India : law, citizenship and community / Eleanor Newbigin

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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List of mapsList of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Making the modern Indian family : property rights and the individual in Colonial Law -- Financing a new citizenship : the Hindu family, income tax and political representation in late-colonial India -- Wives and property or wives as property? : the Hindu family and women's property rights -- The Hindu code bill : creating the modern, Hindu legal subject -- B.R. Ambedkar's Code Bill : caste, marriage and post-colonial Indian citizenship -- Family, nation and economy : establishing a post-colonial patriarchy -- Conclusion -- Appendix: law members involved with the Hindu code bill 1941-56 -- Bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references

Print version: Hindu family and the emergence of modern India

1-107-41685-X (electronic bk.); 1-139-79536-8 (electronic bk.); 978-1-107-41685-7 ( : electronic bk.); 978-1-139-79536-4 ( : electronic bk.)

1-107-03783-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-107-03783-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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LOC-SH: Patriarchy -- India ; Women -- India ; Hindus -- Legal status, laws, etc ; Hindus -- India -- Social life and customs ; Families -- India -- History -- 21st century

Families ; India ; History ; 21st century ; Hindus ; India ; Social life and customs ; Hindus ; Legal status, laws, etc ; Patriarchy ; India ; Women ; India ; Electronic books

Between 1955 and 1956 the Government of India passed four Hindu Law Acts to reform and codify Hindu family law. Scholars have understood these acts as a response to growing concern about women's rights but, in a powerful re-reading of their history, this book traces the origins of the Hindu law reform project to changes in the political-economy of late colonial rule. The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India considers how questions regarding family structure, property rights and gender relations contributed to the development of representative politics, and how, in solving these quest