Description: This Indian book brings together, for the first time, essays written by well-known scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines in the various aspects of family in India and Europe, with special reference to Germany. Contents: Family/Part One: Social History of the Family/Between the Ideal and the Real/The Persisting Images versus Economic and Demographic Changes/The Diverse Life-world of Indian Childhood/Part Two: Images and Symbolic Practices/The Householder, grihastha, in the Mahabharata/Motherhood and Female Identity/Changing Masculinities in Central Europe/Virtous Mother, Virile Hero and Warrior Queen/Part Three: The Family and the State/Gender and Family/State Interest in the Family/Gender in Governance/Part Four: Fault Lines/The Marginal Families/Politics of Gender and Class/Private Crimes and Public Sanction

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