Scribd
Upload
33 views6 pages

Family

The document discusses several aspects of family and culture in Indian popular cinema and society. It addresses relationships within families and between social classes, as well as traditions, values, and conflicts between individual desires and social norms. Key topics include arranged versus love marriages, the role of women, and how Indian family and cultural values are represented nationally and abroad in an increasingly globalized world.

Uploaded by

manindra1konda
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
33 views6 pages

Family

The document discusses several aspects of family and culture in Indian popular cinema and society. It addresses relationships within families and between social classes, as well as traditions, values, and conflicts between individual desires and social norms. Key topics include arranged versus love marriages, the role of women, and how Indian family and cultural values are represented nationally and abroad in an increasingly globalized world.

Uploaded by

manindra1konda
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 6

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

You might also like