Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India - Law, Citizenship and Community

A study of how the development of representative politics in late-colonial India transformed notions of family, gender and religious community.

List of contents

1. Making the modern Indian family: property rights and the individual in colonial law; 2. Financing a new citizenship: the Hindu family, income tax and political representation in late-colonial India; 3. Wives and property or wives as property? The Hindu family and women's property rights; 4. The Hindu Code Bill: creating the modern, Hindu legal subject; 5. B. R. Ambedkar's Code Bill: caste, marriage and post-colonial Indian citizenship; 6. Family, nation and economy: establishing a post-colonial patriarchy.

About the author

Eleanor Newbigin is Lecturer in Modern South Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where she teaches courses on colonial and postcolonial South Asian history to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Prior to this, between 2007 and 2010, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. She has published articles in Modern Asian Studies and the Indian Economic and Social History Review.

Summary

Tracing the historical roots of India's transition to independence, Newbigin's highly original study explores the role of economy, gender and religion in the development of representative politics in twentieth-century India. This book will stimulate debate across disciplines, particularly among scholars considering law, gender and economy in colonial and post-colonial societies.

Product details

• Authors: Eleanor Newbigin, Eleanor (School of Oriental and African Newbigin, Eleanor (School of Oriental and African Studies Newbigin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2013
• EAN: 9781107037830
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03783-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society; Cambridge Studies in Indian Hi; Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society; Cambridge Studies in Indian Hi
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous