By writing this book, the author provides the reader with a better understanding of the changing structure and functions of the family and wider kin networks in India, to inspire further research on the subject. The book gives an overview of major theoretical paradigms, regarding the effect of contemporary social change on the extended and nuclear family in rural and urban India.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P K Roy
Dr. Parimal Roy has held research and positions in Australia Canada, Malaysia and India and is currently Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Chairperson of Graduate Studies at the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Australia. In 1983-84, he was a visiting Research Fellow at Universities of Syracuse, State University of New York at Binghampton and Albany (USA), Toronto (Canada) and London (UK). His major areas of research and teaching interests are race and ethnic relations, family and social networks, inter-ethnic marriage, social change, urban sociology, rural sociology, community studies. Dr. Roy has published several journal articles and monographs in these areas.
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