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Marital Compatibility, Polygamy and Divorce: Marriage and Modernity Amongst Muslims of North India, Circa 1870-1947

Speaker: Ms Asiya Alam, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin

 

The lecture will examine the question of Muslim familial reform by looking at the related debates held in the colonial period from 1870 to 1947 around three major processes: compatibility and consent in marriage, polygamy and dissolution of marriages


Event starts on Monday, 21 March 2011 at 05:30 hrs

Type

Talks

Dates

21 Mar 2011, 05:30 AM

Venue

Marital Compatibility, Polygamy and Divorce: Marriage and Modernity Amongst Muslims of North India, Circa 1870-1947