Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India (Contemporary Indian Studies)

✍ Scribed by Mytheli Sreenivas

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 189
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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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