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- Title
THE STATE AS SURROGATE PARENT: LEGISLATING NONMARITAL SEX IN COLONIAL INDIA, 1911-1929.
- Authors
TAMBE, ASHWINI
- Abstract
The article presents an historical examination into the legislation of British colonial India during the 1910s and 1920s concerning the sexual age of consent for girls. Introductory details are given highlighting the contradictions within the legal discourse concerning marriage age and the age of sexual consent during the period. The author examines the legal debate within the scope of control over feminine sexual agency in early 20th-century India. Commentary is given focusing on the political strategies and ideologies of the reform movement to raise the legal consent age and its impact on feminist history.
- Subjects
INDIA; AGE of consent; GIRLS' sexual behavior; MARRIAGE law; FEMINIST historiography; POLITICAL debates; BRITISH occupation of India, 1765-1947; POLITICS &; government of India; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Journal of the History of Childhood & Youth, 2009, Vol 2, Issue 3, p393
- ISSN
1939-6724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hcy.0.0070