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Frontmatter — TABLE OF CONTENTS — Introduction — A Study of Kinship Groups in the R?m??aya of V?lm?ki — Family Structure in the Hindu Society of Rural India — The Structural Features of the Tribal Families in India — Matrilineal Joint Family Patterns in India — Marriage and Family in the Polyandrous Khasa Tribe of Jaunsar-Bawar — Himalayan Ecology and Family Religious Variation — Kinship in an Indian Village — Family Types and Industrialization in India — The Interdependence of Elementary and Extended Family — Some Possible Variations in Family Types in Gujarat — Contemporary Nayar Family in Kerala — Modernization and Social Change — The Family and Kin Network in Urban India — Some Social Differences in Family Patterns in Bombay — Changes in the Size and Composition of the Household Brought about by Urbanization in Delhi Area — Age at Marriage Historical Obstacles to Needed Reforms — Comments on the Experiences of Some Couples who Married before the Age of Fourteen in Kerala State — Kinship and Marriage Regulations among the Namboodiri Brahmans of Kerala — Marriage and Family among Muslims of Bihar — Heterosexual Friendships and Involvement in Mate Selection Process of Primary and Secondary Teacher Trainees in Ahemadabad — Modern Trends in Mate Selection and Marriage with Special Reference to Kerala — Family Organization and Change among the Overseas Indians with Special Reference to Indian Immigrant Families of British Columbia, Canada