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The family in India : structure and practice /
This timely book examines, in detail, the meaning of family in India. Inextricably linked to the institution of family are issues such as gender and sexual divisions, the role of the state, changing demographic patterns and a growing elderly population. The first part of the book looks at the na...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Tulsi Patel
- The nature of the family / Carle C. Zimmerman
- Some neglected approaches and problems in the study of family in India / A.A. Khatri
- The family in India : some problems concerning research on the changing family in India / M.F. Nimkoff
- The joint family in India: an analysis / I.P. Desai
- Caste and the joint family--a symposium / Aileen D. Ross ... [et al.]
- Family types in Badlapur: an analysis of a changing institution in a Maharashtrian village / William A. Morrison
- The family in transition / K.M. Kapadia
- Family structure and socioeconomic status in central India / Edwin D. Driver
- The phase of dispersal in the Indian family process / A.M. Shah
- The family organization in the south-west of India / Fr. J. Puthenkalam
- Family and kinship groups among the Khatris in Delhi / Saroj Kapoor
- Household and family among Thakors in a north Gujarat village / Lancy Lobo.