About the Book This is a comparative study of two communities in Dharwar city in North Karnataka state in India. The main theme of the book is family structure and marriage among two communities, Malmaddi and Haveripeth. To know family life the social mobility is dealt with. It discusses the mari talkies and the factors leading to marital ties in both the communities within the frame-work of Hinduism. It is shown here as to how the institution of marriage and family are affecting the day today life of the people. The Author analyses very methodically about the institution of caste and its role in the functioning of family and marriage in the society. It is also shown how two communities interact with other castes in their localities in respect of commensality, in matter of food, letting houses etc. The author touches the kinship organization and its orientation among the people of these two communities. This study represents many communities in Indian cities and towns.
About the Author Dr. N. K. KADETOTAD (1933) received his M.A. degree from Karnatak University, Dharwar, India in 1958, Sahitya Rant from Hindi University. Praying, India, in 1967, and Ph.D. from Karnatak University, Dharwar, in March 1976. He was Research Scholar in the Department of Socio logy and Anthropology, Karnatak University, Dharwar from 1960-63 and was Researcher in the Deptt. of Anthropology from 1963 to 1976. At present he is Lecturer in Anthropology. His publications include books on Religion, the Harijans and other aspects of Anthropology. He has attended numerous conferences in India and U.S.A. Now he is engaged in rural Anthropological research and he has finished field Research on the subject "Factional Politics and voting behavior in a legislative constituency in Karnataka." He is member and office bearer in many learned bodies in India.
Preface The Department of Social Anthropology and Society Welfare, Karnatak University, Dharwar besides having teaching staff for M.A. and Ph.D. students, undertakes some of the research projects in order to encourage research among the students as well as the teachers.
As part of this research project the topic "Family and Marriage A Comparative Study of Malmaddi and Ma variety Communities in Dharwar", was chosen for the study One Investigator and another one Research Assistant collected the material under the guidance of Dr. Ishwaran, Professor and Head of the Deptt, of Social Anthropology and Social Welfare The material collected was analyzed by me. In the beginning of analysis Shri Satyanarayan, the Research Assistant also helped me. Shri Satyanarayan left in the middle, I had to complete the analysis of the material collected, and draft the report.
Acknowledgements may be made here to Shri Satyanarayan. Our thanks are mainly due to the respondents of Malmaddi and Haveripeth who co-operated in our work. Thanks are due to Dr. K. Ishwaran who spared his precious time in encouraging undertaking this research.
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