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An Innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and modernity challenges the assumption that arrnges marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona majumdar demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent changes that led to a valorization of the larger, intergenerational family as a revered , 'ancient' social institution, with arranged marriage as the apotheosis of an ...
The need to extend historical scholarship to the postcolonial phase of South Asian societies is increasingly being recognized by academics in different parts of the world. From the Colonial to the Postcolonial addresses this key concern by outlining the historical complexities involved in nations born under the aegis of colonial rule evolving into postcolonial polities. It explores aspects of social and political processes accompanying the transition from ...