The Indian Family in Transition

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
As the Husband, so the Wife......Page 36
Women and Agency......Page 62
Modern Families and Independent Living......Page 82
Women and the Naga Family Today......Page 104
Society, Family and the Self in Indian Fiction......Page 126
Imagined Family......Page 146
The Politics of Home and Food in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies......Page 158
Representation of the Family in Marathi Autobiography Written by Dalit Women......Page 165
Real and Imagined Gujarati Families......Page 175
Hypocrisy and Hollowness in the Indian Joint Family System......Page 189
Reflections of Family and Women in Telugu Literature......Page 204
Globalization and Diasporic Family Dynamics......Page 214
Food, Family, Widowhood in Ashapurna Devi’s Short Fiction......Page 222
The Self and the Family in Telugu Women’s Poetry......Page 232
The Family in Flux......Page 244
The “Reel” Indian Family......Page 281
Hunting for Fish......Page 296
The Family......Page 298
Thoughts on Home…......Page 310
Looking Back......Page 323
Small-Scale Reflections on an Ancestral Home......Page 332
Indian Families in the World......Page 340
A Dialog with Amartya Sen......Page 356
About the Editors and Contributors......Page 361
Index......Page 367