Political economy of production and reproduction: caste, custom, and community in North India/
Prem Chowdhry
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- xxiii,434p. ; 22cm.
- Oxford collected essays. .
The advantages of backwardness: colonial policy and agriculture in Haryana -- Jat domination in south-east Punjab: socio-economic basis of Jat politics in a Punjab district -- Contours of communalism: religion, caste, and identity in south-east Punjab -- Contesting claims and counter-claims: questions of the inheritance and sexuality of widows in a colonial state -- Fluctuating fortunes of wives: creeping rigidity in inter-caste marriages in the colonial period -- High participation and low evaluation: women and work in rural Haryana -- Persistence of a custom: cultural centrality of ghunghat -- Ideology, culture, and hierarchy: expenditure-consumption patterns in rural households -- A matter of two shares: a daughter's claim to patrilineal property in rural north India -- Private lives, state intervention: cases of runaway marriage in rural north India -- Caste Panchayats and the policing of marriage in Haryana: enforcing kinship and territorial exogamy -- 'First our jobs then our girls': the dominant caste perceptions on the 'rising' dalits.
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Power (Social sciences) -- India, North. Women -- India, North -- Social conditions Caste -- India, North. .