Indian Family

Love, Romance and Courtship

Popular Cinema

Relations between sexes

Relations within the family
Relations between social classes
Ideal moral universe
Dilemmas of moral choice
Issues concerning tradition and
national identity

Family Values and Indian Diaspora

Bases of Indian identity/Indianness

Conflict between individual desire and
social norms and expectations:

Possibility of retention in a transnational

location:

arranged/love marriages

Internationalisation of the middle class family

Normative regulation of womens sexuality

Family and Nation

Iconic status of Indian family as an

institution representative of the
Indian nation
Endorsement and assertion of family
values in an uncertain and
globalising world

Indian Culture of Kinship

What are the values?

Which values are valorised?

Is there any critique (howsoever

muted and inconclusive) of the
Indian tradition?

Talking Points

Honour:

Principle of alliance:

sexuality and patriarchy

families/individuals

Women and Tradition

Defiance/adherence of the normative
order of Indian kinship:

patrilineal joint family, respect for patriarchal

authority and marriage as an alliance
between families