Family,Kinship and Marriage in India

The kinship map fo India / Irawati Karve --
The study of Dravidian kinship / Thomas R. Trautmann --
North India in relation to South India / Louis Dumont --
Lineage structure and change in a Gujarat village / A.M. Shah --
Brahman kinship in a Tamil village / E. Kathleen Gough --
Gender and the Khasi family structure / Tiplut Nongbri --
Relatives and the kindred in the Punjabi kinship system / Paul Hershman --
Masks and faces: an essay on Punjabi kinship / Veena Das --
The Nayars and the definition of marriage / E. Kathleen Gough --
Himalayan polyandry and the domestic cycle / Gerald D. Berreman --
Marriage rules and patterns of marriage in the Dravidian kinship region / Thomas R. Trautmann. (Cont'd.) The structural implications of marriage in North India: wife-givers and wife-takers among the Pandits of Kashmir / T.N. Madan --
Marriage preferences among the Dhund of Northern Pakistan / Hastings Donnan --
The hypergamy of the Patidars / D.F. Pocock --
Dowry in North India: its consequences for women / Ursula Sharma --
Bridegroom price in urban India: caste, class and 'dowry evil' among Christians in Madras / Lionel Caplan --
Karimpur families over sixty years / Susan S. Wadley, Bruce W. Derr --
The Hindu family and development / T.N. Madan --
The family and the reproduction of inequality / André Béteille --
Economics and the family / Amartya Sen.

This study offers the results of recent research on the family in India. The main themes discussed are regional varieties throughout the country, descent groups and kindred, marriage, affinity and alliance, property and gender, family and household, structure and change.