Aging and the Indian Diaspora : Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad.

The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In this moving and insightful acc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lamb, Sarah E.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Series:Tracking Globalization.
Subjects:
Older people > Social conditions
East Indian diaspora
United States
India
Aging.
East Indians > Social conditions
Online Access:https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/anu/detail.action?docID=485248
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration
  • 1 Introduction: The Remaking of Aging
  • 2 The Production of Tradition, Modernity, and a New Middle Class
  • 3 The Rise of Old Age Homes in India
  • 4 Becoming an Elder-Abode Member
  • 5 Tea and the Forest: Making a Western Institution Indian
  • 6 Living Alone as a Way of Life
  • 7 Moving Abroad
  • 8 Changing Families and the State
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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