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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Prem Chowdhry (, Independent researcher and former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi)Publisher: OUP India Imprint: OUP India Dimensions: Width: 14.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 21.40cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780199453313ISBN 10: 0199453314 Pages: 464 Publication Date: December 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList 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; IndexReviewsAuthor InformationPrem Chowdhry is Independent researcher and former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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