Full Description
This Omnibus brings together two of distinguished sociologist T.N. Madan's books on the concept of the householder in Hinduism. A common thread running through the Omnibus is the focus on life and society amongst the Hindu Kashmiri Pandit community.
Family and Kinship: A Study of the Pandits of Rural Kashmir is a pioneering and ethnographically rich account of the Indian family, considered to be a classic kinship study. It is probably the only study of its kind of traditional Pandit life in the Kashmir Valley.
Non-renunciation: Themes and Interpretations of Hindu Culture draws attention away from the ideas of caste and renunciation and focuses instead on the 'householder' in Hindu society. Beginning with an analysis of the ideology of the householder among Kashmiri Pandits the author deals with asceticism, eroticism, altruism and death as elaborations of the householder tradition.
The Omnibus also includes a new Preface; a Prologue which introduces the reader to the concept of the householder tradition in Hinduism; an Epilogue-the author's memories of growing up in a Kashmiri Pandit household in Srinagar; and three appendices on related themes.
Contents
II. NON-RENUNCIATION: THEMES AND INTERPRETATIONS OF HINDU CULTURE PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; INTRODUCTION: INTIMATIONS OF THE GOOD LIFE; PREFACE; PROLOGUE: THE HOUSEHOLDER TRADITION IN HINDU SOCIETY; I. FAMILY AND KINSHIP: A STUDY OF THE PANDITS OF RURAL KASHMIR, SECOND ENLARGED EDITION; APPENDIX I STRUCTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF MARRIAGE: WIFE-GIVERS AND WIFE-TAKERS; APPENDIX II THE IDEOLOGY OF THE HOUSEHOLDER; APPENDIX III THE LANGUAGE OF KINSHIP: (1) KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY; APPENDIX IV THE LANGUAGE OF KINSHIP (2): PROVERBS; APPENDIX V THE 'CONVOY': A NOTE ON FIVE INFORMANTS; APPENDIX VI ON LIVING INTIMATELY WITH STRANGERS; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX; II. NON-RENUNCIATION: THEMES AND INTERPRETATIONS OF HINDU CULTURE PREFACE; APPENDIX A NOTE ON THE EPIGRAPHS; REFERENCES; INDEX; EPILOGUE GROWING UP IN A KASHMIRI PANDIT HOUSEHOLD; APPENDIX I IS THE BRAHMANIC GOTRA A GROUPING OF KIN?; APPENDIX II THE HINDU FAMILY AND DEVELOPMENT; APPENDIX III AUSPICIOUSNESS AND PURITY: SOME RECONSIDERATIONS; SUPPLEMENTARY INDEX
