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DEFINING GIRLHOOD IN INDIA A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws ASHWINI TAMBE This content downloaded from 75.69.47.32 on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:12:20 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms DEFINING GIRLHOOD IN INDIA This content downloaded from 75.69.47.32 on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:12:20 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 75.69.47.32 on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:12:20 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms DEFINING GIRLHOOD IN INDIA A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws ASHWINI TAMBE This content downloaded from 75.69.47.32 on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:12:20 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms © 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Library of Congress Control Number: 2019025065 isbn 978-0-252-04272-0 (hardcover) | isbn 978-0-252- 08456-0 (paperback) | isbn 978-0-252-05158-6 (e-book) This content downloaded from 75.69.47.32 on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:12:20 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms To Anya For the many ways you resist definition This content downloaded from 75.69.47.32 on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:12:20 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 75.69.47.32 on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:12:20 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Tropical Exceptions: Imperial Hierarchies, Climate, and Race 17 2 Adolescence as a Traveling Concept 35 3 Legislating Nonmarital Sex in India, 1911–1929 61 4 Early Marriage as Slavery: UN Interventions, 1948–1965 85 5 Population Control and Marriage Age in India, 1960–1978 101 6 Investing in the Girl Child, 1989–2015 121 7 Curtailing Parents? Marriage and Consent Laws, 2004–2018 142 Conclusion 151 Notes 157 Index 193 This content downloaded from 75.69.47.32 on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:13:05 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 75.69.47.32 on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:13:05 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Acknowledgments I’ve spent more than a decade working on this book, but it would have un- doubtedly taken longer were it not for the love and support of many people and institutions. First, thanks to the institutions that financially support critical interdisciplin- ary research of the kind seen here. At a time when the humanities are under pressure, such institutions help us to imagine and generate the many worlds that were and that could be. A grant from the Canadian Social Science and Humani- ties Research Council (SSHRC) enabled me to hire my wonderful research assistants Samantha Laforêt, Shama Dossa, Sumaya Ahmed, and Rajani Bhatia; fund my research trips to India; and organize a conference on transnational approaches to girlhood. A National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer stipend helped me write chapter 6 using research on UN documents. A summer faculty grant from Georgetown University stoked my initial efforts—I came across the Stree archive while on an early research trip, and I later helped digitally preserve cover images and organize a traveling exhibit of Stree covers through a Toyota Foundation grant for cultural preservation. Research funds and a research leave from the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland have made it possible for me to meet my writing deadlines and hire research assistants Sara Haq, Tangere Hoagland, and Samantha O’Donnell. I thank the UMD College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) for supporting my Transnational South Asia colloquium. Anna Storti has rendered prompt and This content downloaded from 75.69.47.32 on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:13:07 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms
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