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The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law and Women's Rights

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The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law and Women's Rights

Author:   Rachel Sturman
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781107010376


Pages:   310
Publication Date:   29 June 2012
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Rachel Sturman
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781107010376


ISBN 10:   1107010373
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   29 June 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Rachel Sturman is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. Her writing has appeared in many journals including Comparative Studies in Society and History, The Journal of Asian Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, and Gender and History.

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