Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Marriage in Rural India: A Study of Andhra Pradesh

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This book is an outcome of empirical study cross-culturally carried out in early part of 1980’s in rural areas of South Central India viz., Andhra Pradesh. The theme of the study focuses on Nuptiality (Marriage) and particularly on age at marriage and its determinants, decision making on marriage, inter-generational changes in marriage patterns etc. Although most aspects of this study cover both husbands and wife as a unit, the last but one chapter is extended further to the marriageable children/brothers of the main respondents, which enhances the predictability of the findings for the immediate future and also for the next two decades or even more. The determinants of age at marriage considered here cover several important cultural, socio-economic, demographic, decision-making and modernization variables. This work will be found as of great utility and the implications of the findings can be beneficial for (i) policy formulations by health, social welfare and planning departments (ii) evolving educational strategies for improving the quality of future married life and (iii) strengthening health and population education programmes in developing countries. It also can serve as a reference book for administrators, planners, policy makers, educationists and teachers. More than anything else it very well serves as a source book for further research to students of social sciences, health, demography and population studies. Added to these academic values, it also contributes to the existing empirical data for developing wider generalizations, when such literature on a wider scale is made available from different cultural, ecological and differentially developing regions. Such efforts could enhance the understanding of society and its change over time.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR N Audinarayana

Dr. N. Audinarayana (b. 1955) is currently working as a Lecturer in the Department of Population Studies, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. After completing his M.A., (Population Studies) with first class from S.V. University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, he joined in the same department and further completed M. Phil. and Ph.D., in 1980 and 1985, respectively. He has contributed about a dozen papers/articles for professional journals and is also co-author of two reports viz. (i) Annotated Bibliography of Studies on Age at Marriage in India and (ii) Demographic Consequences of a Development Project: A Study of Girna Irrigation Project, Maharashtra State, India. He is also a member of IASP, AFDFS and IUSSP.

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Title
Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Marriage in Rural India: A Study of Andhra Pradesh
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8170991889
Length
xvi+272p., Tables; Figures; Appendices; Bibliography; Index; 22cm.
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