Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age - Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examining India's Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and the establishment of 'age' as a political category governing intimate life in late colonial India.

List of contents

Introduction; I. Provincializing childhood; 1. The autoptic child: The Age of Consent Act (1891), law's temporality, and the epistemic contract on age; 2. Juridical childhood: the Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929), global biopolitics, and the "digits of age"; II. Queering age stratification; 3.The sex/age system: boy-grooms, young rapists, and child protection in hindu liberalism; 4. Reproductive temporality: the staging of childhood and adolescence in global/hindu sexology; iii. Consent otherwise; 5.Rethinking minority: Rangila Rasul, the "muslim child wife," and the politics of representation; 6. An age of discretion: querying age and legal subjectivity in the secular shari'a; Epilogue

About the author

Ishita Pande is Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies at Queen's University, Canada. She is the author of Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire (2010).

Summary

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examining India's Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and the establishment of 'age' as a political category governing intimate life in late colonial India.

Product details

• Authors: Ishita Pande, Ishita (Queen's University Pande, Ishita (Queen''s University Pande, Pande Ishita
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781108747486
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74748-6
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; India, Gender & the law, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Asian History, Law & society, Religious & theocratic ideologies, Law and society, gender issues, Hindu Life & Practice, Hindu life and practice, Law and society, sociology of law, HISTORY / Asia / South / General