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Family and Kinship A Study of the Pandits of Rural Kashmir |
| Author : J.A. Barnes, T.N. Madan |
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| Our Price | $ 8.89
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| ISBN | 0195657853 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195657852 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Published In | 2002 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Weight | 1.00 lbs |
| Biblio | pp. xxxiii + 325, Figures, 17 Plates, 15 Tables, 3 Maps (1 Folded), Index, Glossary, Appendices, References, Acknowledgement |
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The Hindu"../books/Search" Title="Search">Searchfter its publication in 1965, this Book earned recognition in Anthropological and sociological circles as a pioneering and ethnographically rich Account of the Hindu family-indeed it has since become a classic. It has been widely cited and discussed, and used as a text worldwide in courses on kinship.
In his foreword to the book, Professor J.A. Barnes (then at the Australian National University) wrote : 'Dr Madan's Study adds to our understanding of social behaviour in general, without restriction on region and epoch.' Three and a half decades later Professor Michael Witzel (Harvard) says : 'The book was my "Bible" during the 1970s in my Search for the literary Traditions of the Kashmiri Pandits. I welcome the re-appearance of this outstanding monument to their society. One hopes it will not be the epitaph, and the Pandits will overcome their present plight as they have done so resiliency during the past millennium.'
This paperback Edition contains a new preface by the author, who highlights the Loss of the traditional Pandit way of life between the years of his fieldwork (1956-86) and now.
Contents
Foreword
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
I. INTRODUCTION : PROBLEMS AND METHODS :
1. Kinship Studies in India
2. The Present Study :
i. Fieldwork
ii. Scope
II. Kashmiri Pandits : History and Social Organization :
1. The Hindus of Kashmir :
i. Population
ii. Pandits Domiciled Outside Kashmir
iii. Kashmiri Brahmans under Early Muslim Rule
iv. Later History
2. Pandit Subcastes :
i. Status and Territorial Distinctions among the 'Karkun'
ii. Kinship and Marriage among the Pandits
III. UTRASSU-UMANAGRI :
1. The Villages of Kashmir :
i. Utrassu-Umanagri : Location and Physical Features
ii. Utrassu-Umanagri : The Settlement Pattern
iii. Utrassu-Umanagri : Legend and History
2. The Villagers :
i. The Muslims
ii. The Pandits
IV. THE HOMESTEAD AND THE Household :
1. The Homestead :
i. Architecture of the Homestead
ii. Construction of the House
iii. Distinguishing Features of the Pandit House
iv. 'What is a House?'
2. The Household in Relation to the House :
i. Numerical Size and Genealogical Composition of the Household
ii. A Dynamic Approach to the Study of Households
iii. General Form of the Developmental Cycle of the Household
iv. Phases of Development in the Households of Utrassu-Umanagri
v. The Ideal Household
V. RECRUITMENT TO THE HOUSEHOLD : (1) Birth AND ADOPTION :
1. Birth :
i. Physical
ii. Supernatural and Cultural Factors in Childbirth
iii. Attitude toward Sons and Daughters
iv. Rituals and Ceremonies connected with Childbirth
2. Adoption :
i. Rules of Adoption
ii. Consequences of Adoption
3. The Parent-Child Relationship
i. Genetic and Moral Aspects
ii. The Nexus of Religious Rites
iii. Ritual Initiation of Boys
iv. Economic Rights and Obligations
v. Grandparents, Parents and Children in Domestic Life
VI. RECRUITMENT TO THE HOUSEHOLD : (2) MARRIAGE AND INCORPORATION :
1. Importance and Nature of Marriage :
i. Selection of Spouses : Prescriptions and Prohibitions
ii. Selection of Spouses : Preferences
iii. Village Exogamy
iv. Negotiations for Marriage
v. Types of Marriage
vi. 'Promise-Giving' and Betrothal Ceremonies
vii. The Marriage Ritual, 105; Secondary Marriage and Remarriage
2. Structural Consequences of Marriage :
i. The Woman-Giving Household
ii. The Pandit Woman in her Conjugal Household
iii. The Husband-Wife Relationship
iv. A Man and His Affines
v. Relations between Affinally Related Households
3. Incorporation
VII. THE ECONOMIC ASPECT OF THE HOUSEHOLD :
1. Traditional Sources of Household Income :
i. Recent Changes in the Pattern of Economic Pursuits
ii. Present-day Sources of Household Income
iii. Collective and Individual Incomes
iv. Household Income, Patterns of Spending, and Levels of Living
2. Joint Ownership of Property :
i. Rights of Inheritance
VIII. PARTITION OF THE HOUSEHOLD :
1. Partition in Relation to Household Structure
2. Partition : Structural Conditions
3. Partition : Causes
4. A Case History
5. The Process of Partition
6. Reunion of Households
IX. THE Family AND THE PATRILINEAGE :
1. The Family :
i. The Compound and the Neighbourhood
ii. Dispersed 'Kotamb'
iii. Inter-Household Relations within the 'Kotamb'
iv. Hostility between Cousins
2. The Patrilineage
X. THE WIDER KINSHIP STRUCTURE: NON-AGNATIC KIN :
1. Bilateral Filiation
2. The 'Matamal'
3. Spouse's 'Matamal'
4. Mother's Siblings
5. 'Wora-Matamal'
6. Parental Matamal
7. Non-agnatic Kinship
XI. HOUSEHOLD AND THE FAMILY AMONG THE PANDITS OF
RURAL KASHMIR : CONCLUDING REVIEW
List of Plates
1. Utrassu-Umanagri in Winter : Snow on the Roofs of Pandit Houses
2. Muslim Cultivators Weeding and Transplanting in a Paddy Field
3. Paddy Fields (after sowing) around Utrassu
4. A maize field (ready for harvesting) in Umanagri
5. Mahant Krishnanand alongside a portrait of the goddess Uma at the holy springs in Umanagri
6. The 'Convoy' (see Appendix V). Left to right: Bishambar Nath Koul, Shambhu Nath Tikoo, Srikanth Pandit, (Amar Nath Marhatta), Vasadev Pandit, and Sarwanand Pandit
7. A Group of the Pandits of Utrassu-Umanagri at the holy Springs on the occasion of the Death Anniversary of the Founder-mahant
8. Two Pandit houses in which Five Households (belonging to one kotamb) reside. In the foreground (right corner) is a jointly owned granary
9. A Pandit Household. In front of the boy seated first from left is a kangri (brazier). It is a clay bowl in a wicker container, filled with live charcoal, and is carried inside the gown during .the winter. The group is sitting on a gubba (embroidered rug) outside their house. In the right corner (foreground) is a pair of wooden sandals
10. A young Pandit couple with their child. All their clothes, except the man's cap (bought in Srinagar), are of the old style. Pandit women wear golden rings and ear pendants as signs of wifehood
11. A Pandit and his bride at the conclusion of the wedding rites. Smoke can be seen rising from the embers of the fire which had been lit to serve as a purificatory agent, divine witness of the rites, and conveyor of food offerings to gods. The concluding rite of offering flowers to the couple accounts for the heap of petals in front of the bride
12. A young Pandit Mother and her Son. She is wearing a Sari
13. A Pandit woman's body being made ready for removal to the cremation ground. It has been given a ritual bath, wrapped in white cloth, and placed on a wooden plank. Weeping nearby is her daughter-in-law
14. The kotamb : Two married women (on the left) and one unmarried girl, related as cousins, washing utensils in the Common Courtyard
15. A Pandit Landlord and his Muslim tenant
16. A Pandit being shaved by a Muslim barber, while another awaits his Turn
17. A Pandit Housewife Repairing the Chulah (Fireplace) in her Kitchen
List of Tables
1. Pattern of Land Use in Utrassu-Umanagri
2. The Range of Households per House
3. Size of the Household
4. Phases of Development in Household Composition
5. Nuclear and Extended Family Households: Comparison of Incidence
6. Incidence of Various Modes of Recruitment to the Household
7. Incidence of Various Types of Marriage
8. Sources of Household Income
9. Incidence of the Sources of Household Income
10. Differences in Household Income for 1956
11. Territorial Groupings of Chulahs into Compounds and Neighbourhoods
12. Collateral Spread of the Patrilineages Localized in Utrassu- Umanagri
13. Economic Relations between the Pandits and the Muslims
14. Terms for Main Categories of Affines and Non-agnatic Cognates
15. List of Elementary Terms
List of Appendix (Appendices)
I. STRUCTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF MARRIAGE : WIFE-GIVERS AND WIFE-TAKERS :
1. The Problem
2. Women : Wives and Mothers
3. Ashnav. Affines and Non-agnatic Cognates
4. Mother's Brother and Father's Sister's Husband
5. Affinal Gifts : Wife-givers and Wife-takers
6. Concluding Remarks
II. THE IDEOLOGY OF THE HOUSEHOLDER :
1. Introductory
2. Sociocultural Identity; 'Bhattil' and 'Garhasthya'
3. Selfhood and Personhood
4. External Signs of Pandit Identity
5. Pandit Identity : Self-ascription
6. Parenthood: Biology and Morality
7. 'Bhattil' : Traditional Purposes of Life
8. 'Bhattil' : Traditional Procedures
9. Alternative Orientations
10. Bhakti
11. Shakti
12. Virakti
13. Concluding Remarks
14. Children and Women
15. The Man-in-the-world
III. THE LANGUAGE OF KINSHIP :
1. Kinship Terminology :
i. Terms of Reference
ii. Ego's Generation
iii. First Ascending Generation
iv. Second and Third Ascending Generations
v. First and Second Descending Generations
vi. Ego's Affines
vii. Terms of Address
viii. Conclusion
IV. THE LANGUAGE OF KINSHIP :
2. Proverbs :
i. Birth and Childhood
ii. Marriage
iii. Interpersonal Relations between Kin and Affines
V. THE 'CONVOY': A NOTE ON FIVE INFORMANTS :
1. Sarwanand Pandit
2. Bishambar Nath Koul
3. Shambhu Nath Tikoo
4. Vasadev Pandit
5. Srikanth Pandit
VI. ON'LIVING INTIMATELY WITH STRANGERS :
1. Ethnographers and Natives
2. Beliefs and Rituals
3. The Private and the Public
4. Kinsfolk and Strangers
Conclusion-Outsiders and Insiders
List of Maps
1. Jammu and Kashmir State showing the three administrative districts constituting the Valley of Kashmir
2. The Villages of Kreri and Utrassu-Umanagri
3. The Village of Utrassu-Umanagri
Review
At last a book about Indian family and kinship which is not about caste!...quite apart from its interest to Indianists, this book will be useful in teaching students of anthropology about the development cycle of the patrilineal joint family. - Burton Benedict (Man, 1966)
It is an excellent book, not only because the material is well ordered and the writing good, but also because it is almost unique in Indian studies...One can only hope that his example will inspire other workers to make comparable studies in other parts of India. - (British Book News, 1966)
This study is an interesting and well written addition to the slim collection of detailed, objective studies of Hindu family life... It consists of interviews, genealogies, family histories and-always the most important method of the fieldworker-participant observation. - Aileen D. Ross (Journal of Asian Studies, 1967)
Madan set out explicitly to remedy the deficiency of reliable anthropological data on family relationships and kinship connexions in India, and in this he has succeeded admirably...The book while filled with figures, maps and details never loses sight of the people, their choices and their decisions in the many situations of conflict they face. - Annette Hamilton (Oceania, 1968)
His book indeed succeeds in showing how the Hindu family and kinship are different from what they are considered to be by the scholars of classical literature. - A.M. Shah (The Eastern Anthropologist, 1968)
[This is] the only full length published study focusing entirely on family and kinship as they function within Hindu society. It contains excellent ethnography, gives vivid details of various aspects of Pandit life, offers useful numerical and graphic data. - Leela Dube (Sociology of Kinship, 1974)
A serious step forward in our knowledge of the functioning of the family in India. - Louis Dumont, Annales 1968