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Wives,Widows & Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India/

The book examines how the family became the centre of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu. Developing ideas about love, marriage and desire were inextricably linked to caste politics, the colonial economy, and nationalist agitation. The book argues that notio...

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Main Author: Sreenivas,Mytheli
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi: Orient Black Swan; 2009.
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by Sreenivas, Mytheli
Published 2008