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Conjugality and Capital: Gender, Families, and Property under Colonial Law in India

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2007

Mytheli Sreenivas
Mytheli Sreenivas
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mytheli.sreenivas@uconn.eduAssistant Professor of History at theUniversity of Connecticut.
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , November 2004 , pp. 937 - 960
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