The Government of Social Life in Colonial India - Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights (Hardcover, New)

From the early days of colonial rule in India, the British established a two-tier system of legal administration. Matters deemed secular were subject to British legal norms, while suits relating to the family were adjudicated according to Hindu or Muslim law, known as personal law. This important new study analyses the system of personal law in colonial India through a re-examination of women's rights. Focusing on Hindu law in western India, it challenges existing scholarship, showing how - far from being a system based on traditional values - Hindu law was developed around ideas of liberalism, and that this framework encouraged questions about equality, women's rights, the significance of bodily difference, and more broadly the relationship between state and society. Rich in archival sources, wide-ranging and theoretically informed, this book illuminates how personal law came to function as an organising principle of colonial governance and of nationalist political imaginations.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
Release date:	June 2012
First published:	June 2012
Authors:	Rachel Sturman
Dimensions:	233 x 160 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	310
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-01037-6
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Foundations of law > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN:	1-107-01037-3
Barcode:	9781107010376

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