: child marriage in India, 1891-1937 Pande, Ishita. creator Ishita Pande text Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press , 2020 monographic eng

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xvi, 322 pages : 24cm. "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. 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 / Ishita Pande . Age of consent Child marriage Child marriage Law and legislation India History History 392.50 PAN 9781009012294 International Book Distributors : Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartments, Building No.- 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002 221019 20221019103202.0