The Indian Family in Transition
Reading Literary and Cultural Texts
- Sanjukta Dasgupta - Former Head, Dept of English and Former Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
- Malashri Lal - University of Delhi, India
Family Studies (General)
The family is viewed from a variety of perspectives, as represented in film, theatre, and literature-both English and vernacular. Including reflective pieces by several well-known scholars, this volume offers a holistic understanding of local and global shifts and fissures that shape the family today.
The essays in this volume cover a wide array of perspectives and material from sociological study and statistical analysis to personal memoirs and a poem…. [The Authors] have done a creditable job of balancing diversity and depth, readability and research.
This volume is an illuminating exposition of Indian families in transition through critical literature study from the colonial period to the present. The students of anthropology and sociology will find this book very interesting for understanding Indian family life and culture change through generations.
The book provides an authentic account of the way the Indian family has evolved from colonial times to the modern period.