Political economy of production and reproduction: caste, custom, and community in North India /
Prem Chowdhry.
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- xxiii, 434 p. ; 23 cm.
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
9780199453313 0199453314 0198067704 (hbk.)
Caste--History.--India--Haryana Sex role--History.--India--Haryana Patriarchy--History.--India--Haryana Community life--History.--India--Haryana Social change--History.--India--Haryana Postcolonialism--History.--India--Haryana
Haryana (India)--Politics and government. Haryana (India)--Social life and customs. Haryana (India)--Colonial influence. Haryana (India)--Economic conditions.