Chowdhry, Prem, <br/><br/>
Political economy of production and reproduction: caste, custom, and community in North India/ 
Prem Chowdhry. 
 - New Delhi:  OUP,  2014. 
 - xxiii, 434 p.  illustrations ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/> Minimal Level Cataloging Plus. 
<br/><br/>SECTION I - State, Law, and Economy: The Colonial Flux <br/> 1. The Advantages of Backwardness: Colonial Policy and Agriculture in Haryana <br/> 2. Jat Domination in South-east Punjab: Socio-economic ; Basis of Jat Politics in a Punjab District <br/>3. Contours of Communalism: Religion, Caste, and Identity in South-east Punjab <br/> 4. Contesting Claims and Counter-claims: Questions of the Inheritance and Sexuality of Widows in a Colonial State <br/> 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 <br/> 6. High Participation and Low Evaluation: Women and Work in Rural Haryana <br/> 7. Persistence of a Custom: Cultural Centrality of Ghunghat <br/> 8. Ideology, Culture, and Hierarchy: Expenditure- Consumption Patterns in Rural Households <br/>9. A Matter of Two Shares: A Daughter's Claim to Patrilineal Property in Rural North India <br/> 10. Private Lives, State Intervention: Cases of Runaway Marriage in Rural North India <br/> 11. Caste Panchayats and the Policing of Marriage in Haryana: Enforcing Kinship and Territorial Exogamy<br/>12. 'First our Jobs then our Girls': The Dominant Caste  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199453313  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Caste--History.--India--Haryana<br/>Sex role<br/>Patriarchy<br/>Community life<br/>Social change
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label>--Politics and government.--Social life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>954.558  / CHO/P