Aging and the Indian diaspora
Subtitle: cosmopolitan families in India and abroad
By: Sarah Lamb.
Series: Tracking globalization
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253353436; 9780253221001
Subjects: Aging -- India; Older people -- India -- Social conditions; East Indians -- United States -- Social conditions; East Indian diaspora
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the remaking of aging; title: The production of tradition, modernity, and a new middle class; title: The rise of old age homes in India; title: Becoming an elder-abode member; title: Tea and the forest: making a western institution Indian; title: Living alone as a way of life; title: Moving abroad; title: Changing families and the state.