TY - BOOK AU - Chowdhry, Prem TI - Political economy of production and reproduction: caste, custom, and community in North India SN - 0198067704 U1 - 338.09541 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Power (Social sciences) -- India, North. KW - Women -- India, North -- Social conditions KW - Caste -- India, North. N1 - 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 ER -