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The Writings of A. M. Shah: The Household and Family in India

by A. M. Shah
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788125053408
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
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  • Pages: 536
  • Original Price: INR 2280.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 739 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

  • This volume brings together the seminal contributions of the sociologist Professor A. M. Shah to the study of the household and family in India.
  • The Household Dimension of the Family in India (Book One) was widely regarded as a landmark study when it first appeared in 1973.
  • It combines micro and macro perspectives, and offers a rigorous critique of the stereotype of the ‘decline’ of the joint family under conditions of industrial modernisation. This book continues to be used as a principal text in many family and kinship courses in sociology departments across the country.
  • It is reproduced here with the original foreword by M. N. Srinivas and the original Annotated Bibliography.
  • The Family in India: Critical Essays (Book Two), first published in 1998, covers a wide range of theoretical, methodological, substantive and policy issues relating to the family.
  • Book Three, titled Essays on the Family and the Elderly, contains three more recent essays, which explore the effects of changes in the family on the elderly; explain the relevance of census data for studies of the household; and comment on the current state of family studies in India from the perspective of the author’s many decades of engagement with the field.
  • The Writings of A. M. Shah has a foreword by Professor Patricia Uberoi.

A. M. Shah retired as Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Delhi University, in 1996.

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