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The Government of Social Life in Colonial India - Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights (Paperback)
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The Government of Social Life in Colonial India - Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
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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.
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