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Summary:

An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenges the assumption that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Majumdar demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent changes that led to a valorization of the larger, intergenerational family as a revered, "ancient" social institution, with arranged marriage as the apotheosis of an "Indian" tradition. She meticulously documents the ways that these newly embraced "traditions"--The extended family and arranged marriage - entered into competition and conversation with other emerging forms of kinship such as the modern unit of the couple, with both models participating promiscuously in the new "marketplace" for marriages, where matrimonial advertisements in the print media and the payment of dowry played central roles. Majumdar argues that together the kinship structures newly asserted as distinctively Indian and the emergence of the marriage market constituted what was and still is modern about marriages in India

Table of Contents:

• Looking for brides and grooms
• Snehalata's death: questions of dowry
• Marriage and distinction: new critiques of vulgarity
• The not-quite bourgeois: the couple form and the joint family
• A nineteenth-century debate: law versus rituals
• Nationalizing the joint family: the Hindu code debate, 1955/56.

Author/Creator:

Majumdar, Rochona

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Main Work:

Marriage and modernity: family values in colonial Bengal [by Majumdar, R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Marriage and modernity [by Majumdar, R.] (Durham : Duke University Press, 2009 — LCCN 2008051091; OCLC Number 277040867)

Subjects:

Arranged marriage — India — Bengal — History — 19th century

Arranged marriage — India — Bengal — History — 20th century

Marriage — India — Bengal — History

Families — India — Bengal — History

Marriage (Hindu law)

1800-1999

Marriage

Families

Arranged marriage

India — Bengal

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 343 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ670.15.B46 M35 2009eb

ISBNs:

9780822390800 (electronic bk.)
0822390809 (electronic bk.)
9780822344629 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0822344629 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780822344780 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
0822344785 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
1282923765
9781282923768
9786612923760
6612923768

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008051091 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

317321650