The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India: Law, Citizenship and Community

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Introduction: Hindu law, family and Indian democracy
1 Making the modern Indian family: property rights and the individual in colonial law
	Making colonial hierarchies: property rights and social progress in colonial personal law
	The Indian family as religious or economic unit? Market regulation and personal law reform
	The Mussalman Wakf Validating Act, 1913
	Conclusion
2 Financing a new citizenship: the Hindu family, income tax and political representation in late-colonial India
	Monitoring taxpayers: the emergence of an all-India income tax system
	Unique or generic? The status of the Hindu undivided family in an emerging all-India income tax policy
	Income tax and the 1919 Government of India Act
	The Income-tax Act of 1922: the HUF and political representation
	Conclusion
3 Wives and property or wives as property? The Hindu family and women's property rights
	Women's politics and personal law reform during the interwar years
	The imperial economy and the Indian family: family property and the global depression in India
	Women, family wealth and the Indian currency crisis of 1931
	The emergence of an Indian female economic subject 1930-1937
	Who is in a HUF? Hindu women's property rights and their position within the Hindu joint family
	Looking for new taxpayers: wives and property or wives as property?
	Conclusion
4 The Hindu Code Bill: creating the modern Hindu legal subject
	Women, modernity and codified law: Hindu and Muslim law reform, 1937-1941
	The Hindu Law Committee and the impact of codification on the debates about Hindu property law
	The wartime Code Bill debates
	A Hindu Code in a secular state? The impact of partition on the Hindu Code Bill debates
	Conclusion
5 B. R. Ambedkar's Code Bill: caste, marriage and postcolonial Indian citizenship
	The state of reason: religion and the state in Nehru and Ambedkar's political thought
	Gender and agency in Ambedkar's anti-caste politics
	The Hindu Code revived: marriage reform and the making of a 'true' democratic Indian citizen
	Hindu identity and marriage in Ambedkar's Code
	Ambedkar's legacy for marriage reform
	Conclusion
6 Family, nation and economy: establishing a postcolonial patriarchy
	State revenue after independence: the Hindu family in a planned economy
	Agriculture and the Hindu family
	Land, labour and family in India's planned economy
	The Hindu Succession Act: creating a postcolonial joint family
	Conclusion
Conclusion: modern democracy, secularism and the Hindu family in postcolonial India
Appendix Law Members involved with the Hindu Code Bill
Bibliography
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Index