Wicked Widows
Law and Faith in Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere Debates
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 20064154 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Tanika Sarkar (autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2008 |
| Páginas | 83-115 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | CHAPTER |
| Revista | Behind the Veil (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Editorial | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230583672_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2480381023 |
| ISBN | 9780230583672 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 5 |
| Referencias citadas | 3 |
Alaw was enacted in 1856 abrogating an earlier legal and prescriptive prohibition against the remarriage of Hindu widows. This law also underwrote the inheritance rights of sons born of remarriage.1 Even though a colonial legislature had enacted the law—a legislature where Indians were not represented—the idea of remarriage had originated among a small group of Bengali reformers who had approached and persuaded some members of the Legislative Council. Remarriage was then furiously debated as an issue in the public sphere in most parts of India for the rest of the century. I will underline some of the significant features of the discipline of Hindu widowhood, and then relate these to the debates on remarriage, in order to explore the implications of the reform for a normative system of social power
Faith · Hinduism · Legislature · Normative · Political science · Remarriage · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
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| Citas por año | 0,83 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 4 |