Childhood Family and Sociocultural Change in India Reinterpreting the Inner World 1st Edition by Dinesh Sharma, Uwé Gielen ISBN 978-0195664607 0195664604

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ISBN 10:  0195664604

ISBN 13:  978-0195664607

Author: Dinesh Sharma,  Uwé P. Gielen

This book deals with the nature of sociocultural change in India and its relevance for the scientific study of childhood, family environments and the process of human development. The view developed in this book is an interdisciplinary one, with a focus on social, developmental and psychoanalytic theory. On the one hand, the growing Indian middle class appears to be in the process of aspiring to be authentically Indian yet thoroughly modern; and on the other, there remains a search for the authentic Hindu self, best represented by the Hindutva movement and the BJP achieving political power. From a social and psychological perspective, these cultural and political movements hope to expunge the harsh pain of the colonial legacy, while managing to fight off the stresses and strains of modernity. Both the inward looking and the outward directed components of the new Indian identity impact the domain of the family through parenting schooling and media, represented in the daily routines of socialization. The book addresses this challenge by working its way through psychoanalytic or developmental issues in order to arrive at a consensus between theory and observations on Indian childhood and personality development. Although this realm of experience remains relatively unexplored within the social discourse in India, the psychoanalytic works by Sudhir Kakar on the psychosocial tensions underlying Indian society offer a great landmark and a starting point. A unique and overdue study, this volume brings important debates previously aired only in relation to rather restricted audiences to a wider readership.

Table of contents: 

1. Foreword

2. Preface – Robert A. LeVine

3. Acknowledgements

4. List of Contributors

5. Introduction – Dinesh Sharma

6. Infancy and Childhood in India: A Review – Dinesh Sharma

7. Cultural Continuity and Change in Kakar’s Works: Some Reflections – Ashok Nagpal

8. Culture, Family Structure, and Psyche in Hindu India: The ‘Fit’ and the ‘Inconsistencies’ – Steve Derne

9. Kakar’s Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Indian Childhood: The Need to Emphasize the Father and Multiple Caregivers in the Socialization Equation – Jaipaul L. Roopnarine & Pretti Suppal

10. In Defence of The Inner World – Sudhir Kakar

11. Psychoanalysis and Sociocultural Change in India: A Conversation with Sudhir Kakar – Dinesh Sharma

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