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Volume 37, Number 1, January-June - Special Issue on the
Ethnography
of Healing Guest Editor: Laurent Pordie |
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Outlining Trends of Social Change
in Marriage and the Family: An Analysis of the Urban Indian
Service Class by Rowena Robinson
Popular journals and newspapers have been telling us for some
time now that modern Indian families are changing in many ways.
Women are taking up careers, the ‘joint family’ is breaking down
and the care of the elderly is getting neglected. Caste barriers
in marriage negotiations are being increasingly breached.
Against this backdrop, the present paper addresses some
questions in the context of social change in Mumbai. What does
more careful analysis show us about the social change? Are the
changes spoken of in the media as pervasive as they are made to
appear? Are they long-standing, lasting changes? Which section
of the urban populace is it that is being spoken of? Do these
shifts cut across all sections of the urban population?
Key Words: Family, Marriage, Caste, Religion, Social
Change |
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