Women and Colonial Law: A Feminist Social History

Janaki Nair

doi:10.1017/9781009596992

Women and Colonial Law

A Feminist Social History

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Janaki Nair, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: February 2025
Print publication year:: 2025
Online ISBN:: 9781009596992
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009596992
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Legal History, Area Studies, South Asian History, Law, Asian Studies, History, Political Economy, Political Sociology
Series:: Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches

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This book introduces students of law and history to key colonial moments that have shaped women's legal status up to the present day. It introduces students and general readers to the critical events and legal decisions that determined the place of women under law. It also introduces readers to terms that are critical to understanding women's legal status in India today. In addition to bringing together the latest developments in Indian historical research with advances in feminist legal studies, it tracks the shifts and changes that have occurred, especially over the last 30 years, to feminist standpoints on women and law. Using examples and cases from different regions of India, it also weaves together a complex and nuanced account of colonial social history more generally. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Dedication
pp vii-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xiv

Acknowledgements
pp xv-xvi

1 - Introduction: Women and Colonial Law—A Feminist Social History
pp 1-21

2 - The Foundations of Modern Legal Structures in India
pp 22-47

3 - The Widow and Her Rights Redefined
pp 48-73

4 - Female Childhood in Focus
pp 74-95

5 - Labour Legislation and the Woman Worker
pp 96-131

6 - Votes, Reserved Seats and Women’s Participation
pp 132-154

7 - Family Forms, Sexualities and Reconstituted Patriarchies
pp 155-186

8 - Personal Laws under Colonial Rule
pp 187-219

9 - Towards a Uniform Civil Code—and Beyond
pp 220-244

Afterword: The Law, Women and an Argument about the Past
pp 245-248

Bibliography
pp 249-276

Index
pp 277-296

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