Wives , Widows, and Concubines - The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India Sreenivas MytheliPaperback / softback
Wives , Widows, and Concubines - The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India Sreenivas MytheliPaperback / softback The family was at the center of intense debates about identity, community, and…
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Wives , Widows, and Concubines - The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India Sreenivas MytheliPaperback / softback
The family was at the center of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu, India. In the first detailed study of the family in Tamil history, Wives, Widows, and Concubines maps changes in the late colonial family in relation to the region's culture, politics, and economy. Emerging ideas about love, marriage, and desire were linked to caste politics, the colonial economy, and nationalist agitation.
Conjugality provided a language with which women laid claim to new rights, even as the structures of the conjugal family reinscribed women's oppression inside and outside marriage. Among professional and mercantile elites, the conjugal relationship displaced the extended family as the focal point of household dynamics.