Introduction

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Acknowledgments

The idea for this special volume of essays on Indian families originated with a one-day workshop, ‘Family Ties: Security, Socialization and Affect in Indian Families’ held on 11 September 2009 at La Trobe University, Melbourne. The workshop was co-organised by Ira Raja, Kay Souter and Trevor Hogan, on behalf of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology. It was made possible through the generous support of the Australia-India Council (Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, and the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne.

Notes

¹ Patricia Uberoi, ‘The Family in India: Beyond the Nuclear versus Joint Debate’, in Veena Das (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003), p.1073.

² Kalpana Kannabiran, ‘Three Dimensional Family: Remapping a Multidisciplinary Approach to Family Studies’, in Economic and Political Weekly (21 Oct. 2006), p.4430.

³ A.M. Shah, The Family in India: Critical Essays (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1998); and Kannabiran, ‘Three Dimensional Family’, p.4431.

⁴ Kannabiran, ‘Three Dimensional Family’, p.4431.

⁵ Indrani Chatterjee, ‘Introduction’, in Indrani Chatterjee (ed.), Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004), pp.4–5.

⁶ Kannabiran, ‘Three Dimensional Family’, p.4427.

⁷ Catherine Belsey, ‘Denaturalizing the Family: History at the Level of the Signifier,’ in European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol.4, no.3 (2001), p.290.

⁸ See Sarah Lamb, ‘In/dependence, Intergenerational Uncertainty, and the Ambivalent State: Perceptions of Old Age Security in India’, in this issue.

⁹ Uberoi, ‘The Family in India’, p.1073.

¹⁰ Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for “Indian” Pasts?’ in Representations, Vol.37 (1992), p.17.

¹¹ Uberoi, ‘The Family in India’, pp.1065–7.

¹² Vasanthi Raman, ‘The Diverse Life-Worlds of Indian Childhood’, in Margrit Pernau, Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld (eds), Family and Gender: Changing Values in Germany and India (New Delhi: Sage, 2003), p.87.

¹³ Uberoi, ‘The Family in India’, pp.1081–2.

¹⁴  Ibid., p.1082.

¹⁵  Ibid., pp.1082–3.

¹⁶ Imtiaz Ahmad, ‘Between the Ideal and the Real: Gender Relations within the Indian Joint Family’, in Margrit Pernau, Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld (eds), Family and Gender: Changing Values in Germany and India (New Delhi: Sage, 2003), p.42.

¹⁷ Uberoi, ‘The Family in India’, p.1077.

¹⁸  Ibid., p.1084.

¹⁹  Ibid., p.1061.

²⁰ Shameem Black, ‘White and Indian? Intermarriage and Narrative Authority in South Asian American Fiction’, in this issue.