TY - BOOK AU - Das, Veena, ed. TI - The Oxford India companion to sociology and social anthropology SN - 0195645820 U1 - 301.0954 PY - 2003/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Social conditions KW - Sociology KW - Anthropology N1 - V. 2. The paradox of child labour and anthropology / Olga Nieuwenhuys -- Old age and the global economy of knowledge / Lawrence Cohen -- Patterns of literacy and their social context / Jean Drèze -- Schooling, culture, and modernity / Sanjay Srivastava -- Higher education / Suma Chitnis -- The family in India beyond the nuclear versus joint debate / Patricia Uberoi -- Patterns of marriage / Thomas R. Trautmann -- Domestic violence / Malavika Karlekar -- The person beyond the family / Margaret Trawick -- The cultural construction of emotion / Robert Desjarlais and James Wilce -- Agrarian structures and their transformations / Surinder Jodhka -- Labour and trade unions / Narayan Sheth -- Labour, technology, and industry / Kuriakose Mamkoottam -- The informal sector / Jan Breman -- The study of entrepreneurship in India: in need of a comparative perspective / Mario Rutten -- Markets / Denis Vidal -- Decentralization and the poor / Pranab Bardhan -- The significance of lower courts in the judicial process / Robert Moog -- The Indian nation-state: from pre-colonial beginnings to post-colonial reconstructions / Thomas Pantham -- The nature of Indian democracy / Sudipta Kaviraj -- Backward castes/classes as legal and political entities / P. Radhakrishnan -- Local-level/grassroots political studies / Harold A. Gould -- Social movements / Martin Fuchs and Antje Linkenbach -- Collective violence / Jonathan Spencer ER -