Research Catalog

Title

Family and kinship : a study of the Pandits of rural Kashmir / T.N. Madan ; with a foreword by J.A. Barnes.

Author

Madan, T. N.

Publication

Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989

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Details

Description

xxix, 325 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford India paperbacks

Uniform Title

Oxford India paperbacks

Subject

• Families > India > Kashmir
• Kashmiri Pandits > Social life and customs
• Kinship > India > Kashmir
• Families > India > Jammu and Kashmir
• Kinship > India > Jammu and Kashmir

Note

• Originally published: 1966.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Problems and Methods (starting p. 1) -- I Kinship Studies in India (starting p. 1) -- II The Present Study (starting p. 4) -- Fieldwork (starting p. 5) -- Scope (starting p. 7) -- 2 Kashmiri Pandits: History and Social Organization (starting p. 13) -- I The Hindus of Kashmir (starting p. 13) -- II Pandit Subcastes (starting p. 19) -- 3 Utrassu-Umanagri (starting p. 26) -- I The Villages of Kashmir (starting p. 26) -- II The Villagers (starting p. 34) -- 4 The Homestead and the Household (starting p. 39) -- I The Homestead (starting p. 39) -- II The Household in Relation to the House (starting p. 48) -- 5 Recruitment to the Household: (1) Birth and Adoption (starting p. 64) -- I Birth (starting p. 64) -- II Adoption (starting p. 72) -- III The Parent-Child Relationship (starting p. 76) -- 6 Recruitment to the Household: (2) Marriage and Incorporation (starting p. 89) -- I Importance and Nature of Marriage (starting p. 89) -- II Structural Consequences of Marriage (starting p. 108) -- III Incorporation (starting p. 124) -- 7 The Economic Aspect of the Household (starting p. 126) -- I Traditional Sources of Household Income (starting p. 126) -- II Joint Ownership of Property (starting p. 137) -- 8 Partition of the Household (starting p. 144) -- 9 The Family and the Patrilineage (starting p. 159) -- I The Family (starting p. 159) -- II The Patrilineage (starting p. 179) -- 10 The Wider Kinship Structure: Non-Agnatic Kin (starting p. 183) -- 11 Household and the Family Among the Pandits of Rural Kashmir: Concluding Review (starting p. 192) -- App. I Structural Implications of Marriage: Wife-Givers and Wife-Takers (starting p. 201) -- App. II The Ideology of the Householder (starting p. 230) -- App. III The Language of Kinship: (1) Kinship Terminology (starting p. 258) -- App. IV The Language of Kinship: (2) Proverbs (starting p. 266) -- App. V The 'Convoy': A Note on Five Informants (starting p. 270) -- App. VI On Living Intimately with Strangers (starting p. 274) -- Glossary (starting p. 297) -- References (starting p. 307) -- Index (starting p. 317).

ISBN

0195657853

OCLC

• 47727058
• SCSB-10892267

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library