This Indian book brings together, for the first time, essays written by well-known scolars from a wide range of academic disciplines in the various aspects of family in India and Europe, with special reference to Germany.
| Family - Margrit PernauMargrit Pernau |
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| A Gendering and Gendered Space |
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| PART ONE: SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE FAMILY |
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| Between the Ideal and the Real - Imtiaz Ahmad |
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| Gender Relations within the Indian Joint Family |
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| The Persisting Image versus Economic and Demographic Changes - Gunilla-Friederike Budde |
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| The Three-generation Household in Europe |
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| The Diverse Life-worlds of Indian Childhood - Vasanthi Raman |
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| PART TWO: IMAGES AND SYMBOLIC PRACTICES |
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| The Householder, /f003grihastha/f001, in the /f003Mahabharata/f001 - Chaturvedi Badrinath |
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| Motherhood and Female Identity - Margrit Pernau |
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| Religious Advice Literature for Woman in German Catholicism and Indian Islam |
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| Changing Masculinities in Central Europe - Ute Frevert |
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| Duelling and its Aftermath |
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| Virtous Mother, Virile Hero and Warrior Queen - Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar |
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| The Conception of Gender and Family in Hindutava |
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| PART THREE: THE FAMILY AND THE STATE |
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| Gender and Family - Nadini Azad |
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| State Intervention in India |
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| State Interest in the Family - Helmut Reifield |
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| Social Change and Social Policy in Germany |
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| Gender in Governance - Shail Mayaram |
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| Woman, Family and the Constitutional Panchayats of Contemporary India |
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| PART FOUR: FAULT LINES |
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| The Marginal Families - Nirmala Banerjee |
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| Politics of Gender and Class - Samita Sen |
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| Woman in Indian Industries |
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| Private Crimes and Public Sanction - U Vindhya |
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| Violence against Woman in the Family |
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Helmut Reifeld is at present the Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in India. Formerly a research fellow with the German Historical Institute, London, and Bayreuth University, Germany, his co edited works include Pluralism and Equality and Women in Panchayati Raj.
