Political Economy of Production and Reproduction : Caste, Custom, and Community in North India OIP
Caste, Custom, and Community in North India
Published in December 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-19-945331-3 (ISBN)
Description
This collection showcases an in-depth understanding of social flux and cultural turmoil in contemporary north India. The author presents an intensive case study of Haryana, spanning the mid-nineteenth and twenty-first century. In doing so, she explores its politics, economy, and society with special emphasis on caste and gender. Divided into two sections-colonial and post-colonial-the essays critically examine the complex relationship of the colonial past with the present. Mapping significant social processes and state policies, the volume provides an insight into one of the wealthiest regions in India and why it continues to be regressive even in the twenty-first century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-945331-3 (9780199453313)
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Person
Prem Chowdhry is Independent researcher and former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
Content
List of Tables ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; SECTION I - State, Law, and Economy: The Colonial Flux ; 1. The Advantages of Backwardness: Colonial Policy and Agriculture in Haryana ; 2. Jat Domination in South-east Punjab: Socio-economic ; Basis of Jat Politics in a Punjab District ; 3. Contours of Communalism: Religion, Caste, and Identity in South-east Punjab ; 4. Contesting Claims and Counter-claims: Questions of the Inheritance and Sexuality of Widows in a Colonial State ; 5. Fluctuating Fortunes of Wives: Creeping Rigidity in Inter-caste Marriages in the Colonial Period ; SECTION II - Caste, Community, and Gender: The Post-colonial Constraints ; 6. High Participation and Low Evaluation: Women and Work in Rural Haryana ; 7. Persistence of a Custom: Cultural Centrality of Ghunghat ; 8. Ideology, Culture, and Hierarchy: Expenditure- Consumption Patterns in Rural Households ; 9. A Matter of Two Shares: A Daughter's Claim to Patrilineal Property in Rural North India ; 10. Private Lives, State Intervention: Cases of Runaway Marriage in Rural North India ; 11. Caste Panchayats and the Policing of Marriage in Haryana: Enforcing Kinship and Territorial Exogamy ; 12. 'First our Jobs then our Girls': The Dominant Caste ; Perceptions on the 'Rising' Dalits ; Index