The moment of marriage: Towards a history of temporality in South Asia, circa 1650–1850 (Record no. 531598)
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| Personal name | Wright, Samuel |
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| Title | The moment of marriage: Towards a history of temporality in South Asia, circa 1650–1850 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Modern Asian Studies |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 59(1), Jan, 2025: p.33-59 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This article investigates marriage as a site for the historical study of time. Focusing on Hindu marriage in South Asia between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the article studies (a) how the moment of a marriage is made and documented through what the article calls ‘temporal practices’, and (b) how, once this moment is made and documented, it is put to use in and for a marriage ceremony. The article has three sections. In the first section, it discusses the device used to measure the time of the marriage ceremony: the water clock. This section also addresses how the water clock was used, and who used it, within the marriage ceremony; and registers a shift in the nineteenth century from the water clock to the mechanical clock. In the second section, the article discusses documentary practices that record the moment of a marriage and addresses historical changes related to these practices in the nineteenth century. In the third section, the article examines the work that the moment of a marriage does once it has been brought into being and documented. This section argues that the moment of a marriage frames and makes efficacious a certain action through which the bride and groom are transformed. The article concludes by arguing that the moment of a marriage temporally regulates the activities of the marriage ceremony and explores how this moment reconfigures relations to the past and future for the bride and groom.- Reproduced https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/abs/moment-of-marriage-towards-a-history-of-temporality-in-south-asia-circa-16501850/71E77E4CAF1B2C9884F4458BFD7FBE9A |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Marriage, Temporality, Temporal practice, South Asia. |
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| Main entry heading | Modern Asian Studies |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2025-09-18 | 59(1), Jan, 2025: p.33-59 | AR137275 | 2025-09-18 | Articles |