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

By: Chowdhry, PremMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford collected essaysPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011Description: xxiii,434p. ; 22cmISBN: 0198067704Subject(s): Power (Social sciences) -- India, North | Women -- India, North -- Social conditions | Caste -- India, NorthDDC classification: 338.09541

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	338.09541 CHO/P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P14310

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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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