The Hindu Householder

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.

About the Author

T.N. Madan is Honorary Professor (Sociology) at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

Table of 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
1.:Introduction: Problems and Methods
2.:Kashmiri Pandits: History and Social Organization
3.:Utrassu-Umanagri
4.:The Homestead and the Household
5.:Recruitment to the Household: (1) Birth and Adoption
6.:Recruitment to the Household (2): Marriage and Incorporation
7.:The Economic Aspect of the Household
9.:The Family and the Patrilineage
10.:The Wider Kinship Structure: Non-Agnatic Kin
11.:Household and the Family among the Pandits of Rural Kashmir: Concluding Review
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
1.:Domesticity and Detachment
2.:Auspiciousness and Purity
3.:Asceticism and Eroticism
4.:The Desired and the Good
5.:Living and Dying; Epilogue: The Quest for Hinduism
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