Political Economy of Production and Reproduction : Caste, Custom, and Community in North India OIP

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9780199453313

Publication date:

12/01/2015

Paperback

460 pages

216x140mm

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ISBN:

9780199453313

Publication date:

12/01/2015

Paperback

460 pages

Prem Chowdhry

Author is reputed scholar of gender studies,Rare collection of the author's pioneering research on Haryana,Strongly grounded in regional sources

Rights:  World Rights

Prem Chowdhry

Description

This collection showcases an in-depth understanding of social flux and cultural turmoil in contemporary north India. The author presents an intensive case study of Haryana, spanning the mid-nineteenth and twenty-first century. In doing so, she explores its politics, economy, and society with special emphasis on caste and gender. Divided into two sections-colonial and post-colonial-the essays critically examine the complex relationship of the colonial past with the present. Mapping significant social processes and state policies, the volume provides an insight into one of the wealthiest regions in India and why it continues to be regressive even in the twenty-first century.

About the Author


Prem Chowdhry, Independent researcher and former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi

Prem Chowdhry is Independent researcher and former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.

Prem Chowdhry

Table of contents

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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
Index

Prem Chowdhry

Prem Chowdhry

Prem Chowdhry

Description

This collection showcases an in-depth understanding of social flux and cultural turmoil in contemporary north India. The author presents an intensive case study of Haryana, spanning the mid-nineteenth and twenty-first century. In doing so, she explores its politics, economy, and society with special emphasis on caste and gender. Divided into two sections-colonial and post-colonial-the essays critically examine the complex relationship of the colonial past with the present. Mapping significant social processes and state policies, the volume provides an insight into one of the wealthiest regions in India and why it continues to be regressive even in the twenty-first century.

About the Author


Prem Chowdhry, Independent researcher and former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi

Prem Chowdhry is Independent researcher and former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.

Table of contents

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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
Index