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This examines how the family became the center of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu. This argues that the notion of community centered around the changing family were fundamental to shaping national identity in the early twentieth century.
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Colonial voices from Wives, Widows, and Concubines:
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"The Zemindar used to take his meals with me. The Zemindar used to sleep during nights in the upstairs of the new palace. I and he used to sleep in the same bed." --Menakshi Sundra Nachiar, 1893
"Whenever my husband felt amorous, he would occasionally cohabit with any woman and pay her occasionally. This is all. They were concubines." --Muthuverammal, 1885
"The very principle of the joint family is against giving equal rights to females." --P. C. Tyagaraja Iyer, 1935
Mytheli Sreenivas is Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies at The Ohio State University.
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- PublisherOrient Blackswan
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 812503725X
- ISBN 13 9788125037255
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages169
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