Home, family and kinship in Maharashtra/ edited by Irina Glushkova and Rajendra Vora - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. - viii, 240 p. ; 22 cm.

The outside inside: incursions into the Marathi household at the end of the nineteenth century / Jim Masselos --
Delimiting the ghar in socio-cultural space / Irina A. Efremova --
A house of your own: the value of ghar for village women in Maharashtra / Hemalata C. Dandekar --
Women in the homes of the saints / Eleanor Zelliot --
Bajirao and Mastani: a family tragedy in eighteenth-century Maharashtra / Eugenia Vanina --
Home and the march of times in Wada chirebandi / Vidyut Bhagwat. Changing house and social representations: the case of dowry in Pune district / Véronique Béneï --
From songs in the house to songs of social change / Georg Amshoff --
The Jedhe gharane (the house of the Jedhes) / A.R. Kulkarni --
Marathas: the role of kinship relations in the social and political life of Maharashtra / Marina Yu. Lomova-Oppokova --
Dominant lineages and political power in Maharashtra / Rajendra Vora --
Untouchables and the nationalist movement in Maharashtra: a search for a united house / Eugenia Yurlova.

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