<![CDATA[Law and the Image]]> https://lawimage.medialabju.org/items/browse?output=rss2&tags=sexuality Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:49:41 +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[Still from 'Shilpi' mentioning 'Sagarika']]> https://lawimage.medialabju.org/items/show/32

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Title

Still from 'Shilpi' mentioning 'Sagarika'

Subject

Film Still with Comments

Description

A still from the Bengali film Shilpi published in the Bengali journal Rupmancha on Nov, 1956, with caption warning the directors not to the make the same mistake that they made with their previous film Sagarika; the mistake of corrupting the Bengali culture with its sexual overtures.

Creator

Anon.

Source

The Media Lab

Publisher

Rupmancha

Date

1956-11

Contributor

The Media Lab

Format

JPG

Language

Bengali

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Paper

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1183 X 2231 pixels
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