About the Book
The prime purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of family in contemporary India. The study sets off a long-overdue dialogue between anthropology/sociology and demography in the Indian context.
This book is a collection of research papers published in leading professional journals from India and abroad or unpublished papers presented in some international seminars or workshops. But all the papers have been thoroughly recast in view of the latest facts and figures and presented in a thematically coherent manner. It is a fresh attempt to bridge the gap between demographic processes and family structure in the Indian context. This study has also tried to cover changes in marital practices.
This book will be found useful by scholars, students and professionals who work with families and also by lay people interested in family studies in India.
Contents
• The Family: Concept and Perspective
• Household Size and Structure in India
• Changing Family Structure and Fertility Behaviour in a Rural Setting
• Family Formation and Marriage in India
• Marriage and Problem of Dowry in India
• Dissolution of Joint Family in Urban India
• Changing Family in Urban India
• Problems of Family and State Intervention
• Challenges Facing the Family in India
About the Author / Editor
J.P. Singh, author and lexicographer, holds a PhD in Demography from the Australian National University, Canberra. He had advance training in population and economics at the ISS, Hague (the Netherlands) and attended Summer Training Program at the Institute of Population, East-West Center of University of Hawaii (USA). He has worked as Professor of Sociology, Additional Director of Population Research Centre and Pro Vice-Chancellor of Patna University, Patna. He has also worked as Director (Higher Education), Government of Bihar. He has published more than 100 research papers and book reviews in professional journals from India and abroad and has set a record of publishing 40 books in the field of demography, anthropology, sociology and Indology during four decades of his academic career.
