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Author:
Pande, Ishita, 1976- author.
Title:
Sex, law and the politics of age : child marriage in India, 1891-1937 / Ishita Pande, Queen's University, Ontario.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
xvi, 322 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Subject:
Child marriage--India--History.
Child marriage--History.--India--History.
Age of consent--India--History.
Age of consent.
Child marriage.
Child marriage--Law and legislation.
India.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and index.
Contents:
Part I. Provincializing childhood -- Part II. Queering age stratification -- Part III. Consent otherwise.
Summary:
Ishita Pande's innovative study provides a dual biography of India's path-breaking Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and of "age" itself as a key category of identity for upholding the rule of law, and for governing intimate life in late colonial India.
ISBN:
1108489745
9781108489744
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1134458821
LCCN:
2019059922
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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