TY - BOOK AU - Chowdhury Prem TI - Political Economy of Production and Reproduction: Caste, Custom, and Community in North India SN - 978-0-19-945331-3 U1 - 338.09541 23 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press N1 - List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction SECTION I - State, Law, and Economy: The Colonial Flux 1. The Advantages of Backwardness: Colonial Policy and Agriculture in Haryana 2. Jat Domination in South-east Punjab: Socio-economic Basis of Jat Politics in a Punjab District 3. Contours of Communalism: Religion, Caste, and Identity in South-east Punjab 4. Contesting Claims and Counter-claims: Questions of the Inheritance and Sexuality of Widows in a Colonial State 5. Fluctuating Fortunes of Wives: Creeping Rigidity in Inter-caste Marriages in the Colonial Period SECTION II - Caste, Community, and Gender: The Post-colonial Constraints 6. High Participation and Low Evaluation: Women and Work in Rural Haryana 7. Persistence of a Custom: Cultural Centrality of Ghunghat 8. Ideology, Culture, and Hierarchy: Expenditure- Consumption Patterns in Rural Households 9. A Matter of Two Shares: A Daughter's Claim to Patrilineal Property in Rural North India 10. Private Lives, State Intervention: Cases of Runaway Marriage in Rural North India 11. Caste Panchayats and the Policing of Marriage in Haryana: Enforcing Kinship and Territorial Exogamy 12. 'First our Jobs then our Girls': The Dominant Caste Perceptions on the 'Rising' Dalits Index ER -