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

by Mytheli Sreenivas

The family was at the center of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu, India. Emerging ideas about love, marriage, and desire were linked to caste politics, the colonial economy, and nationalist agitation. In the first detailed historical study of Tamil families in colonial India, Wives, Widows, and Concubines maps changes in the late colonial family in relation to the region's culture, politics, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253219728
• ISBN13: 9780253219725
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher