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100	1		_aPande, Ishita. _eauthor. _974032
245	1	0	_aSex, Law and the Politics of Age : _bChild Marriage in India, 1891-1937
264		1	_aNew York: _bCambridge University Press, _c2020.
300			_axvi,322p. _c22cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aProvincializing 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.
520			_a"In Mother India (1927), the notorious provocation that shook the British Empire, American journalist Katherine Mayo boldly proclaimed that one had to look no further than Indian sex habits to resolve the demographic puzzle of the subjection of 247,000,000 (the population of British India without counting the numbers that resided in the princely states) to "fewer than 200,000" (which she reckoned was the entire European population in India, "from the Viceroy down to the haberdasher's baby").1 The most pathological aspect of this sex life was child marriage, as Mayo clarified in this description of an exemplary child wife: Married as a baby, sent to her husband at ten, the shock of incessant use was too much for her brain. It went. After that, beat her as he would, all that she could do was to crouch in the corner, a little twisted heap, panting. Not worth the keep. And so at last, in despair and rage over his bad bargain, he slung her small body over his shoulder, carried her out to the edge of the jungle, cast her in among the scrub thicket, and left her there to die"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aChild marriage _zIndia _xHistory. _974033
650		0	_aLaw and legislation _zIndia _xHistory. _974034
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