<![CDATA[Law and the Image]]> https://lawimage.medialabju.org/items/browse?output=rss2&tags=conjugality Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:48:28 +0000 ritwickpal@gmail.com (Law and the Image) © & ® by The Media Lab, Jadavpur University, 2011 Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Love in a Colonial Climate: Marriage, Sex and Romance in Nineteenth-Century Bengal]]> https://lawimage.medialabju.org/items/show/39

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Title

Love in a Colonial Climate: Marriage, Sex and Romance in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Subject

Cultural Studies/ Asian Studies

Description

A study of the 19th century Bengali society and the changing notions of marriage, conjugality and companionship ushered in through an acquaintance to Western worldviews through colonial rule.

Creator

Tapan Raychaudhuri

Source

Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2, (May, 2000), pp. 349-378.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press.

Date

2000

Contributor

The Media Lab

Rights

JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/stable/313067

Format

PDF

Language

English

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Child Marriage and its impact of the child bride's life through personal accounts.
Suppressed sexuality and closed households facilitating extra-marital relations which, even when found were suppressed within the family to prevent "public" denouncement of the family name.
the widow's plight.
Victorian puritan ethos among the Brahmos and the western-educated. Suppression of sexuality as "vulgar",a stand point incommensurate with certain devotional modes and practises prevalent even in Hinduism which ar steeped in sexual discourses.
The lure of "romance" in the post-Hindu College reformist era. Liberalism and introduction to western notions of companionship through literature. The lure mostly unrequitted, yet call for "women's education" rises in which underlies the desire for an "educated companion".

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PDF
Love in a Colonial Climate_Marriage Sex and Romance in NineteenthCentury Bengal.pdf
]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:48:33 +0000 <![CDATA[Uttar Falguni 01]]> https://lawimage.medialabju.org/items/show/30

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Title

Uttar Falguni 01

Subject

Bengali film

Description

Uttar Falguni (1963)
Director: Asit Sen
Producer: Uttam Kumar Films Pvt. Ltd.
Story: Niharranjan Gupta
Script: Nripendrakrishna Chattopadhyay
Cinematography: Anil Gupta, Jyoti Laha
Art: Ramchandra Sindhe, Sujit Das
Editing: Tarun Dutta
Music: Rabin Chattopadhyay
Cast: Suchitra Sen, Bikash Ray, Dilip Mukhopadhyay, Pahari Sanyal, Chhaya Debi, Jahar Gangopadhyay, Ajit Bandyopadhyay, Sita Mukhopadhyay, Kalipada Chakraborty, Shyam Laha, Renuka Ray, Rajlakshmi Debi, etc.
Distributors: Chhayabani Pvt. Ltd.
Released on 11/10/1963 at Rupabani, Aruna, Bharati
Awards: President's Award, India, Silver Medal for Best Bengali Film, 1963.

synopsis: Suchitra plays the role of a Bengali Hindu girl given up in marriage to a lecherous drunkard, whose tortures force her to think of suicide. Yet she is miraculously saved and takes up the job of a Bai in a Lucknow household. She sends her daughter away to be brought up in respectable surroundings, but the husband finds her out and returns continually to claim initially money, and then the daughter, threatening her with the restitution of conjugal rights clause. When the man ultimately learns of the daughter's whereabouts, Suchitra kills him to prevent the disclosure of her daughter's identity.
Meanwhile, the daughter has been brought up by the woman's ex-boyfriend, a lawyer. Suchitra returns in a double role as the young daughter who has herself grown into a lawyer and takes up the case of, unknowingly, her own mother and the final disclosure awaits in the courts of law.

Creator

Asit Sen

Source

DVD

Contributor

The Media Lab

Format

AVI

Language

Bengali

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Transcription

The lecherous husband returns to extort money form the wife (Suchitra) threatening her with the Restitution of Conjugal Rights clause.

Subtitled in English by the Media Lab.

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DVD

Duration

00:37 min.

Compression

AVI

Producer

Uttam Kumar Films Pvt. Ltd.

Director

Asit Sen
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