List of Tables | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xiii |
State, Law, and Economy: The Colonial Flux | |
The Advantages of Backwardness: Colonial Policy and Agriculture in Haryana | p. 3 |
Jat Domination in South-east Punjab: Socio-economic Basis of Jat Politics in a Punjab District | p. 35 |
Contours of Communalism: Religion, Caste, and Identity in South-east Punjab | p. 60 |
Contesting Claims and Counter-claims: Questions of the Inheritance and Sexuality of Widows in a Colonial State | p. 99 |
Fluctuating Fortunes of Wives: Creeping Rigidity in Inter-caste Marriages in the Colonial Period | p. 120 |
Caste, Community, and Gender: The Post-colonial Constraints | |
High Participation and Low Evaluation: Women and Work in Rural Haryana | p. 157 |
Persistence of a Custom: Cultural Centrality of Ghunghat | p. 195 |
Ideology, Culture, and Hierarchy: Expenditure-Consumption Patterns in Rural Households | p. 221 |
A Matter of Two Shares: A Daughter's Claim to Patrilineal Property in Rural North India | p. 259 |
Private Lives, State Intervention: Cases of Runaway Marriage in Rural North India | p. 296 |
Caste Panchayats and the Policing of Marriage in Haryana: Enforcing Kinship and Territorial Exogamy | p. 326 |
'First our Jobs then our Girls': The Dominant Caste Perceptions on the 'Rising' Dalits | p. 369 |
Index | p. 413 |
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