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Enslaved Daughters
Colonialism, Law and Women's Rights
Second Edition
Sudhir Chandra
282 pages
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215x138mm
978-0-19-569573-1
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Paperback
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20 March 2008
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- True story of a woman's defiance of the social order in colonial India
- New Afterword by the author on libel suit against Rukhmabai
- Based on original archival research
- Jargon free, lucid writing
- Relevant for several courses, including gender studies, family law,
- Hindu law, culture studies, and legal history
This is the second edition of a remarkable study of a young woman's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy and the colonial legal establishment in late nineteenth century India. It revolves around a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights' filed against Rukhmabai, who was married at age eleven and refused to go and live with her husband. Based on extensive archival research, this lucid and engaging account captures the dramatic unfolding of the litigation, as well as the huge social and political debate set off by it. The narrative skillfully weaves together the details of the case with larger issues of gender and law, colonialism, culture, reform, and modernity. This
edition includes a new Afterword in which the author analyses a vexatious libel case into which the rival party dragged Rukhmabai with a view to breaking her will, even before the original suit had been settled.Readership: Scholars and students of gender and law, family law, Hindu law, human rights, culture studies, political science, and media studies, policymakers, child rights activists and NGOs.
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Sudhir Chandra, Formerly Senior Fellow, Centre for Social Studies, Surat, Gujarat Sudhir Chandra was formerly Senior Fellow, Centre for Social Studies, Surat, Gujarat and Visiting Professor, Institute for the Study of Languages & Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He is the author of Continuing Dilemmas: Understanding Social Consciousness (2002), and The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India (1992, OUP) and Dependence and Disillusionment: Emergence of National Consciousness in Later 19th Century India (1975).
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Prologue
Ch 1 Rukhmabai and Her Case.
Ch 2. A Disputed Charter.
Ch 3. The Law on Trial.
Ch 4. A Challenge to Civilized Society.
Ch 5. The Brutal Embrace: Let it Stand.
Epilogue. Appendices ? A - E. Index.
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