Society in India

Author: David G MandelbaumPublisher: Popular PrakashanYear: 1998Language: EnglishPages: 665+ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171540139 DescriptionThis book is in 2 Volumes bound in One. This analysis of Indian society is the most comprehensive study that has been done in recent times.It brings together the results of modern social approach to reveal the regular patterns that underlie social relations throughout the country; it also outlines some of the principal social and regional variations. Professor Mandelbaum views social relations in India as systems and parts of systems and shows that Indian society has not been static or stagnant, as is often asserted, but has continually been adapted, mainly on the basis of certain deep-laying psychological and social themes.VOLUME ONE: titled Continuity and Change opens with the concepts of social system and of caste order and then defines the major components of Indian society. Family and kin relations are next discussed, with particular attentio