India has considerable amount of cultural diversity and pluralism. The various cultural groups within India have developed distinct identities, life styles, goals and aspirations. These have maintained different views of parenting in their respective groups. Dr. (Mrs.) Neeti Sachdeva has given detailed and authentic account of how culture shapes the ethnotheories of parenting in different cultural groups. Her research work prepared with painstaking labour is based on the contemporary child rearing practices in Punjabi, Bengali and Marwari communities. These practices in the traditional societies in India have been handed down through generations, with each generation and each family introducing minor changes, which are appropriate to their current cultural contents. She has elaborated the differential pattern of parenting in the three subcultural groups as exposed to modern influences of life in Delhi. Exhaustive bibliography meticulously prepared by the authoress has enormously enhanced the academic value of this book. the book would prove very useful not only to the advanced research scholars in the domain of social and cultural life but also to scholars and students interested in anthropology and psychology.
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