The family in India : structure and practice /
editor, Tulsi Patel ; foreword by A.M. Shah.
- New Delhi ; London : Sage Publications, 2005.
- 310 p. ; 23 cm.
- Themes in Indian sociology ; v. 6 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The family: nature and scope -- The nature of the family / Carle C. Zimmerman -- Some neglected approaches and problems in the study of family in India / A.A. Khatri -- Some problems concerning research on the changing family in India / M.F. Nimkoff -- The myth of the Indian joint family: empirical analysis -- The joint family in India: an analysis / I.P. Desai -- Caste and the joint family, an approach / Aileen D. Ross -- An analysis / I.P. Desai -- In Tamil Nadu / A. Aiyappan -- In Kerala / M.S.A. Rao -- In an immigrant artisan community / Hemlata Acharya -- In a mobile commercial community / B.R. Agarwala -- 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 socio-economic status in central India / Edwin D. Driver -- The phase of dispersal in the Indian family process / A.M. Shah -- The demystifying case studies -- The family organization in the south-west of India / Fr. J. Puthenkalam, S.J -- Family and kinship groups among the Khatris in Delhi / Saroj Kapoor -- Household and family among Thakors in a north Gujarat village / Lancy Lobo.