Sex, law and the politics of age : child marriage in India, 1891-1937 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pande, Ishita, 1976- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Subjects:	Child marriage > India > History. Child marriage > Law and legislation > India > History. Age of consent > India > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Provincializing childhood. The autoptic child: the Age of Consent Act (1891), law's temporality, and the epistemic contract on age
Juridical childhood: the Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929), global biopolitics, and the "digits of age"
Queering age stratification. The sex/age system: boy-grooms, young rapists, and child protection in Hindu liberalism
Reproductive temporality: the staging of childhood and adolescence in global/Hindu sexology
Consent otherwise. Rethinking minority: Rangila Rasul, the "Muslim child wife," and the politics of representation
An age of discretion: querying age and legal subjectivity in the secular Ahari'a.