English Law, Brahmo Marriage, and the Problem of Religious Difference: Civil Marriage Laws in Britain and India

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Acknowledgments: The earliest version of this article was presented at the annual conference of the Law and Society Association, in Berlin, July 2007. I am grateful to Tanika Sarkar for alerting me to the importance of Rabindranath Tagore's Gora as a key source for this article. I also thank the three anonymous CSSH referees for their meticulous and encouraging feedback, and David Akin for his fine editorial chiseling of this article.