India: Cultural Patterns and Processes

Preface -- The Culture of India in Spatial Perspective: an Introduction -- The Spatial Variation of Indian Literacy -- The City as Jungle in the Indo-English Novel -- Urban Environment and Citizen Perception: the Calcutta Experience -- Ethnic Neighborhoods in Indian Cities: the Paras of Dumka and the Bengali Tola of Bhagalpur -- Rural House Types and Village Settlement Patterns -- Caste and Urban House Type in South India: Brahmin Houses in Tamilnadu and Karnataka -- Indian Dance: Classical Unity and Regional Variation -- The Geography of Folk Art in India -- The Architecture and Organization of Kerala Style Hindu Temples -- Patterns of Religious Diversity -- Ahimsa, Man and Animals: Aspects of Religion in the Cultural Landscape of Western India -- The Sacred Cow Concept: Its Impact on other Bovines, Economic Life, and Human Genetics -- Cultural Patterns and Health and Disease in India -- Diet and Disease: Some Cultural Aspects of Food Use in India -- Patterns of Indian Pastoralism -- Cultural Ecology of Rural Settlements in the Chandigarh Dun Region -- Decision-Making Groups and Agrarian Spatial Change -- The Cultural Geography of India in Perspective