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Dowry murder: the imperial origins of a cultural crime
Veena Talwar Oldenburg-
Frontmatter
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Introduction (page 3)
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Chapter 1: Conundrums and Contexts (page 19)
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Chapter 2: The Just-So Stories about Female Infanticide (page 41)
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Chapter 3: The Tangled Tale of Twisting a Safety Net into a Noose (page 73)
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Chapter 4: Engineering a Masculine World (page 99)
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Chapter 5: Local Customs and the Economy Grow Mustaches (page 131)
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Chapter 6: Writing Lives, Underwriting Silences: Understanding Dowry Death in Contemporary India (page 175)
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Epilogue (page 227)
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Notes (page 229)
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References (page 245)
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Index (page 257)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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IJHS | 10.1 (Apr. 2006): 117-118 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079631 |
JAS | 64.2 (May 2005): 500-502 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25075803 |
AHR | 112.2 (Apr. 2007): 484-485 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4136632 |
EAA | 40.3 (128) (Sep. - Dec. 2005): 709-712 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40313614 |
JCCH | 6.2 (Fall 2005) | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history/v006/6.2hardgrove.html |
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Published: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780195150711 (hardcover)
- 9780195150728 (paper)