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

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

Name: The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law and Women's Rights
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781316649787
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Author: Rachel Sturman
ISBN: 9781316649787

By Rachel Sturman

Cambridge University Press June 2017

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ISBN-13: 9781316649787
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: June 2017
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Introduction

Part I. Economic Governance:

1. Property between law and political economy

2. The dilemmas of social economy

Part II. The Politics of Personal Law:

3. Hindu law as a regime of rights

4. Custom and human value in the debates on Hindu marriage

5. Law, community, and belonging

Conclusion.

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