Polyandry in India

Contents:- Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Part I : INTRODUCTION Part II : POLYANDRY IN NORTH AND NORTH-WESTERN INDIA : 1. Polyandry in Ladakh/John. H. Crook 2. Persistence of Lahaul Polyandry and Decline/T.K. Ghosh 3. Polyandry in a High Himalayan Society : Persistence and Change/M.K. Raha and P.C. Coomar 4. Polyandry in the North-Western Himalayas : Some Changing Trends/Ramesh Chandra 5. Pahari Polyandry : A Comparison/D. Gerald Berreman 6. Himalayan Polyandry and the Domestic Cycle/D. Gerald Berreman 7. Pahari and Tibetan Polyandry Revisited/C. Melvyn Goldstein 8. Polyandry in a Cis-Himalayan Community/V.K. Sishaudia 9. Polyandry among the Jat Sikhs of Punjab/K.P. Singh Part III : POLYANDRY IN SOUTH INDIA : 10. The Nayars and the definition of Marriage/E. Kathleen Gough 11. Fraternal Polyandry in Malabar/A. Aiyyappan 12. Polyandry in Malabar/K. Raman Unni 13. Polyandry in Kota Society/David G. Mandelbaum 14. Polyandry in the Kota Society : An Appraisal/I. Verghese Part IV : POLYANDRY IN EAST AND NORTH-EAST INDIA : 15. A Note on Polyandry among the Gallong : An Analytical Appraisal/B.K. Das Gupta 16. The so-called Polyandry among the Gallongs/Niranjan Sarkar 17. Polyandry among the Lepchas of Sikkim : A Dead or Dying Institution/Samit Ghosal Part V : POLYANDRY IN INDIA : SPECIAL ISSUES : 18. Polyandry in Ancient Indian Society/Niranjan Sarkar M.K. Raha 19. A Note on Differential Sex-ratios and Polyand-rous People in India/K. Pakrasi 20. Bow and Arrow Ceremony of the Toda - An Interpretation/B.B. Goswami 21. Woman's Role in a Polyandrous Cis-Himalayan Society : An Overview/G.S. Bhatt and S.D. Jain 22. Status of Women in Polyandrous Society/S. B. Nandi Index The Title 'Polyandry in India : Demographic, Economic, Social, Religious and Psychological Concomitants of Plural Marriages in Women written/authored/edited by Manis Kumar Raha, Palash Chandra Coomar', published in the year 2016. The ISBN 9788121201056 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. Th