Aging and the Indian diaspora : cosmopolitan families in India and abroad / Sarah Lamb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamb, Sarah, 1960-

Series:

Tracking globalization.

Tracking globalization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging--India.

Aging.

Older people--India--Social conditions.

Older people.

East Indians--United States--Social conditions.

East Indians.

East Indian diaspora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In this moving and insightful account, Sarah Lamb shows that older persons are innovative agents in the processes of social-cultural change. Lamb's study probes debates and cultural assumptions in both India and the United States regarding how best to age; the proper social-moral relationship among individuals, genders, families, the market, and the state; and ways of finding meaning in the human life course.

Contents:

Introduction: the remaking of aging

The production of tradition, modernity, and a new middle class

The rise of old age homes in India

Becoming an elder-abode member

Tea and the forest: making a western institution Indian

Living alone as a way of life

Moving abroad

Changing families and the state.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-253-00360-1

OCLC:

613205559