Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad

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.

Author: Sarah E. Lamb
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 07/06/2009
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780253221001

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/25/2009 pg. 19

About the Author

Sarah Lamb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India and co-editor of Everyday Life in South Asia (IUP, 2002).