Family Diversity in India

The book examines the characteristics of family life of various religious and cultural groups in India and analyses the diversities and complexities of family patterns, practices and pathos that exist n India. It studies the interdisciplinary perspective to identity the extent of differences among different religious and cultural groups. About The Author:- Dr. Parimal Roy, has held research and positions in AustriAlia Canada, Malaysia and India and is currently Senior Lecture 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.