Prem Chowdhry
Showing all 6 books
In post-colonial India, the process of political democratization and radically altered legal enactments, especially relating to marriage and inheritance, have changed the dynamics of power relations. The essays included in Political Economy of Production and Reproduction are selected with a view to achieve an understanding of contemporary north India, along with all its social, familial, and legal contradictions. Spanning the mid nineteenth to the twenty-first ...
This book is an empirico-historical enquiry into the empire cinema made in Hollywood and Britain during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. It shows how empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonised people. Although empire cinema has been examined by western scholars, such studies have located the films almost wholly within the colonising country, rather than ...
This book deals with the widespread phenomenon of contentious marriages and elopements in rural and semi-urban North India. Such challenges to norms and customs have recently escalated, and have become more complex due to the changing dynamics of power between, and within, caste groups. As runaway couples question the authority of family, caste, and community, traditional powers have become more dictatorial and violent. The study shows how colonial order ...