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Aging and the Indian Diaspora
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The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderlyliving alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related toextensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In thismoving and insightful account, Sarah Lamb shows that older persons are innovativeagents in the processes of social-cultural change. Lamb's study probes debates andcultural assumptions in both India and the United States regarding how best to age, the proper social-moral relationship among individuals, genders, families, themarket, and the state, and ways of finding meaning in the human lifecourse.
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