Political economy of production and reproduction: caste, custom, and community in North India/ Prem Chowdhry.

By: Chowdhry, PremMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi: OUP, 2014Description: xxiii, 434 p. illustrations ; 22 cmISBN: 9780199453313 Subject(s): Caste -- India -- Haryana -- History | Sex role | Patriarchy | Community life | Social change | -- Politics and government | -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 954.558
Contents:
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
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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

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