Sex, law and the politics of age : child marriage in India, 1891-1937 / Ishita Pande, Queens University, Ontario.
"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 witho...
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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.