Kinship and Urbanization: White Collar Migrants in North India |
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Contents
THE PHYSICAL SETTING | 1 |
THE PEOPLE | 20 |
THE HOUSEHOLD | 49 |
Household Type Caste and Landed Property | 63 |
Neolocality and the Care of Aged Parents | 69 |
FAMILY AND KINSHIP IN THE URBAN | 112 |
THE NEIGHBORHOOD | 149 |
Informal Interpersonal Relations among Neighbors | 168 |
Formal Interaction among Neighbors | 177 |
CONCLUSIONS | 190 |
THE FIELD RESEARCH | 201 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Kinship and Urbanization: White Collar Migrants in North India Publications of the Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies |
| Authors | Sylvia Vatuk, James Smoot Coleman |
| Editor | Center for South and Southeast Asia studies (Berkeley, Calif.) |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1972 |
| ISBN | 0520020642, 9780520020641 |
| Length | 219 pages |
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