CiNii Books - The T.N. Madan omnibus : the Hindu householder

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.

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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

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