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Superstition in the daily life of Kashmiri Panditsarticle 1952 • Madan, T. N.
Kashmiri • Asia > South Asia
This document describes some common superstitious practices and beliefs among Kashmiri Hindus (Pandits)....Kinship terms used by the Pandits of Kashmirarticle 1953 • Madan, T. N.
Kashmiri • Asia > South Asia
This is a preliminary analysis of the kinship terminology of the Kashmiri Hindus (Pandits), relating classificatory and descriptive kinship terms to social practices....Family and kinshipBook 1989 • Madan, T. N.
Kashmiri • Asia > South Asia
This comprehensive ethnography of the Kashmiri Pandit family and kinship system discusses the clustered patrilineage settlement patterns within and between rural villages. The author is careful to emphasize religious and occupational identities over ...Religious ideology in a plural societyarticle 1976 • Madan, T. N.
Kashmiri • Asia > South Asia
This work examines a Muslim village of occupational specialists and its relationship to a neighboring Hindi village of landowners. While the relationship has the appearance of a hereditary client-patron system, the author is careful to avoid explaini...