Author: Ruchika Sharma
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000638685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Get Book
Book Description
This book analyzes the domestic relations which British men came to establish with native Indian women in early colonial Bengal. It provides a fresh look into the history of imperial expansion and colonial encounters by studying the large number of wills left by the British men who came in an official or economic capacity to India. It closely engages with these wills, considering them as unique personal records. These documents, where the men penned down details of their native mistresses, give a glimpse of what their lives, interpersonal relationships, household objects, and everyday affairs were like. The volume highlights how commonplace such non-marital cohabitation was and constructs the social history of these connections. It looks at issues of theft, violence, rape, bequeathment, and property rights which the women had to contend with, and also studies some of the early experiences of the mixed-race children who were a product of these relationships. A unique look into the asymmetrical but fascinating history of interracial households in early colonial Bengal, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of history, women’s studies, gender studies, colonial law, colonial travel writing, minority studies, colonialism, imperialism, and South Asian studies.
Author: Nandini Bhattacharyya Panda
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199087903
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages :
Get Book
Book Description
This book, strongly grounded in primary sources, makes an important contribution to the intellectual history of early modern Bengal. It brings to light the complex interpenetration of diverse interests, opinions, and ideologies articulated by various social groups implicated in the process of colonization on the lines of Ranajit Guha's work on property relations in Bengal and Radhika Singha's work on law. There is no comparable work specifically on the subject of Hindu property rights and how these came to be perceived or interpreted in early modern Bengal. The author explores the so-called compendia prepared under British auspices and argues that there was hardly any link between the Smritis and the laws. The latter were determined almost entirely by changing British policy with regard to land revenue and that many of the positive features of Hindu custom like women's rights to property were undermined in the process.
Author: Jon E. Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Get Book
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789355723321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Basudeb Chattopadhyay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Durba Ghosh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521857048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Get Book
Book Description
Study of conjugal relationships between Indian women and British men in colonial India.
Author: Mytheli Sreenivas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Get Book
Book Description
Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India
Author: Radhika Singha
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Get Book
Book Description
This volume deals with law-making as a cultural enterprise in which the colonial state had to draw upon existing normative codes of rank, status and gender, and re-order them to a new and more exclusive definition of the state's sovereign right.
Author: Barbara Southard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789840513420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Anindita Mukhopadhyay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199080700
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Get Book
Book Description
Study chiefly concerning 18th century Bengal, India.
