Index
A
abjection, 23 , 74 , 137 , 159 , 173 , 207 , 250 , 266 , 269 , 271 , 275 , 277 , 303
absence, 5 , 20 , 31 , 38 -39, 49 , 56 , 58 -59, 120 , 173 , 274 , 289 , 295 , 302 , 305
accusation, 72 -74
Achenbaum, Andrew, 101 , 317
activity/disengagement, 21 , 65 , 115 , 185
adaptation, 230
adaptogenic, 133
Adhyasa , 143
Adi Dharm, 226 , 229 , 252
adjustment/maladjustment, 141 , 194 , 196 , 198 -201, 205 , 207 , 210 -211, 216 -217, 230 , 244 , 299
Adkins, Janet, 58 , 60 -61, 303 -304, 313
affect, 24 , 28 -29, 80 , 126 , 210 , 217 , 292 -293
Africa, 30 -31
Agar, Michael, 6 , 309
Agarwal, Bina, 14 , 99 , 216 , 268 , 310 , 317 , 322 , 324
Agarwal family, Nandanagar, 207 -208
age: incongruities, 47 ; materialization of, 289. See also difference, age as
Age Aid India, 90 , 106 -107
Age-Care India, 88 -90, 106 -109, 194 , 209
ageism, 16 , 61 , 69 -70, 80 -81
aghori, 155 , 280
aging, 88 ; enterprise, 95 , 98 , 116 , 293 ;
as euphemism, 183 ;
normal, 60 , 69 -70, 80 -81, 183 , 200 , 219 ;
premature, 20 -22, 222
"Aging in India," 4 , 88 -93, 99 , 102 -104, 106 -107, 118 , 120 , 184 , 194
Agnoli, A., 322
Agrawal family, Ravindrapuri, 196 -197, 240
Ahmad, Aijaz, 317
Ahmedabad, 201
AIDS, 54
Aitareya Brahmana, 121
Aitasa Pralapa , 121 , 175
Ajara, 145 , 179 , 288
alienation, 64 , 293
Allahabad, 41 , 284 , 304
allopathy, 40 -41, 127 , 136 -137, 318.
See also bio-medicine
Alter, Joseph, 43 , 312 , 320
Althusser, Louis, 38 , 312
aluminum, 31
Alzheimer, Alois, 27 , 67 -69, 79 -80, 83 -84, 127 , 314 -315
Alzheimer's and Related Disorders Society of India (ARDSI), 20 , 36 , 38
Alzheimer's Association, 7 -8, 16 -17, 20 , 32 , 45 , 55 -58, 60 , 310 , 313
Alzheimer's disease, 123 , 141 , 185 , 199 -201, 209 -210, 215 -216, 218 , 220 , 296 , 298 -301;
American discourse of, 7 , 16 , 20 , 32 , 45 , 55 -58, 60 , 81 -86, 125 -127, 303 , 313 ;
American movement of, 80 -81;
animal model of, 5 , 49 , 85 , 312 ;
definition of, xv , 5 -6, 26 -27;
diagnosis of, 33 , 125 -126;
epidemiology of, 29 -32, 36 , 38 , 125 ;
gene for, 5 , 18 , 31 , 49 , 61 ;
globalization of, 81 , 84 , 156 ;
history of, 26 -27, 68 -69, 79 -84, 126 , 315 ;
Indian
Alzheimer's disease (continued) discourse of, 15 , 18 -19, 20 ;
Indian movement of, 20 , 36 ;
irony and, 51 -53, 59 , 81 ;
materialization of, 85 ;
metaphor for old age and death, 47 , 60 , 85 , 126 ;
as "nation's fourth leading killer," 60 , 85 , 125 -126;
ontology of, 126 ;
plaques and tangles of, 18 -20, 27 , 31 -32, 36 , 38 -39, 56 -57, 61 , 68 , 79 -80, 82 -83, 85 , 126 , 297 , 303 ;
pneumonia and, 125 ;
as process, 33 ;
test for, 5 , 61 , 85 -86, 126.
See also dementia; senility
Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI), 18 , 20 , 29 , 84
Alzism, 126
Amaducci, L. A., 315 , 318
Ambedkar, Dr., 225 , 228
ambiguity, 112 , 183 , 213 , 241 , 271
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 81 -82, 185
Amin, Shahid, 282 , 324
anality, 23 , 163 -165
Anantharaman, R. N., 321
Andrews, Dana, 47 , 50 -51
anger, 74 , 154 , 158 , 175 , 177 , 194 , 198 , 201 -202, 207 , 210 , 233 , 235 , 238 , 240 -241, 244 -247, 251 , 272 , 292.
See also rishi, angry
anthropology, 7 , 257 , 287 -288, 292 , 308 ;
Indian, 15 ;
medical, 70 , 213 ;
multi-sited, 8 ;
psychological, 178
Anupa, and family, 249
anxiety, 123 , 125 -127, 140 , 201 , 216 ;
dependency, 124 , 185 , 200 , 212 , 240 , 248 , 302 ;
ghabrahat , 215 ;
seva , 180 , 236
anxiolytics, 215
Apne Begane , 123 , 125 , 170 , 179
apoplexy, 64 -65
Appadurai, Arjun, 237 , 322 -323
Arnold, David, 311
ars moriendi , 71
arteriosclerosis, 64 -66, 69 , 76 , 80 , 218
artha , 185
Arya Samaj, 113 -114
ashram, 41 ;
bhajan/widow, 41 , 113 , 115 , 265 , 273 ;
Vanaprastha, 41 , 113 -115;
Vriddh, 115
asirvad , 251 -252
Asli Bara Indrajal , 322
asramadharma, 40 , 113 -115, 142 -143, 153 , 165 , 169 , 172 , 183 , 185 , 198 , 202 -203, 205 , 237 , 277 , 312
astrology 137 , 215
Atharva Veda, 121 , 318
atherosclerosis, 21
atrophy, 65 -68
attribution, 183
aunt, 116 -120, 159 , 193 , 206 -207, 266 , 270 -271, 274 -275, 277 , 296 , 298 ;
"Aunt Minnie" story, 296 ;
mashima, 116 , 118
authority, 121 , 241 -242, 283
autonomy, 91
Avorn, Jerry, 322
Ayurveda, 33 , 40 -41, 93 , 109 -112, 127 -138, 153 , 187 , 210 , 215 , 245 , 275 , 305 , 317 -318
B
baba, 155 , 212 , 258 , 260 -261, 268 , 270 -271, 278 -281, 283 , 285 -286, 308
Baba, Bengali Quarter, 277 -278
Babb, Lawrence, 144 , 319
babu, 119 -120, 159 , 171
Bacon, Roger, 66 , 314
Bageshera, and family, 235 , 239
bahatture , 157 , 197 , 276
bahu. See daughter-in-law
Baidyanath, 136
Bailey, F. G., 102 , 317
bakbak , xxii , 13 -14, 125 , 170 , 175 -176, 196 , 210 , 235 -236, 238 -239, 241 -244, 249 -250, 255 , 267 , 272 , 274 , 294 -295, 303 , 307
Bakshi, S. R., 318
balance/imbalance, 8 , 190 , 193 -199, 201 , 207 , 211 -212, 220 , 223 , 230 , 233 , 235 , 244 , 250 , 252 , 300 -302, 321
Balua. See old woman of Balua
Banaras. See Varanasi
Banaras Hindu University (BHU), 42 , 112 , 129 , 133 , 135 , 191 , 193 , 202 , 214 -215, 221 , 224 , 233 -234, 247 -248, 279
banarsipan , 10 , 40 , 43
Bandyopadhyay, Tarashankar, 324
Banerjee, Sumanta, 119 -120, 318
Banerjee family, 263
Banerji, 119 , 318
Bangalore, 39 , 41 , 84 , 109 , 182
Bania, 227 -228, 232 , 236 , 252 -253
Barrett, Albert M., 314
Barthes, Roland, 7 , 104 , 310
Baru Baba, 226 -227, 237
Basalla, George, 316
Basu family, 141 -142, 182 , 199 , 201
Bawa, A. S., 107
bawd, 67 , 79
Beach, Thomas G., 315
Becker, Gaylene, 322
Bengal Hurkaru , 3 -4, 25 , 173
Bengali Quarter, 42 , 105 -106, 108 , 157 , 195 , 230 , 234 -235, 263 -264, 267 , 275 , 277 , 294
Benign Senescent Forgetfulness (BSF), 61 , 126 , 219
Benson, Herbert, 153 , 319
Bentham, Jeremy, 116
Beotra, Rai Sahib B. R., 24 , 311
Beriya Baba, 279 -285
Berreman, Gerald, 322
Berrios, G. E., 79 -80, 126 , 315 -316, 318
"Better Brain," 18 -20, 32 , 35 -36, 84 , 299
bhadralok , 117 , 120 , 173 , 264 -265, 269
Bhagavata Purana , 275 , 277 , 324
Bhairava, 266 , 271
bhajan, 196 -197, 250 , 265 , 273 -74, 280.
See also ashram, bhajan
bhakti, 176 , 199
Bharati, 299
Bharati, R. Sarasa, 19 , 30 , 34 , 36 , 38 -39
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 285
Bharucha, N. E., 312
Bhatia, H. S., 316
bhimrati , 157 , 197
Bhishma, 176
bhoga/bhogi , 185 , 236 , 280
Bhumihar, 195
bhut-pret possession, 215 -216, 250 -251, 255 , 300
Biggers, Janet, 52 -53
Bijay, 266 -267, 275 , 279
biomedicine, 6 , 37 , 40 , 70 , 127 , 133 , 184 , 297.
See also allopathy
biopolitics, 22
birthday party, 158
Bishwanath, and family, 275
Biswas, Suhas K., 316
Blau, Zena Smith, 329
Bleuler, Eugen, 65 , 314
blood, 22 ; menstrual, 233 ; pressure (BP), 65 , 108 -109, 195 -196
body, xvii , 21 , 37 -38, 69 , 75 , 79 , 84 , 132 , 140 , 155 , 161 , 232 , 270 -271, 285 , 288 -289, 292 , 294 -295;
ageless, 285 , 288 ;
dismembered, 135 , 140 ;
divine, 274 ;
examinable, 137 ;
familial, 177 -183, 191 , 199 , 220 , 230 , 250 , 254 , 269 -270, 281 , 300 , 302 ;
Hindu/Muslim, 236 ;
as machine, 68 ;
"mindful," 184 , 303 ;
national, 4 , 254 ;
old, xvii , 3 , 6 , 9 , 11 , 22 , 25 , 62 , 67 , 74 , 76 , 83 , 112 , 114 , 131 , 138 , 145 , 159 -160, 174 , 212 , 216 , 230 , 245 , 269 , 283 , 293 ;
senile, 32 -34, 52 , 62 , 72 , 77 , 87 , 125 -126, 140 , 145 , 219 , 292 , 300 , 302 ;
subtle, 213 ;
tan versus sarir, 212 -213;
translocatable, 138 -139;
tropical, 23 ;
young, 130 -138, 146 , 150 -151, 169 -170, 289
Bombay (Mumbai), 41 , 46 , 112 , 114 , 132 , 134 , 137 , 158 -159, 170 , 217 -218, 225
Boral, G. C., 319
Bose, A. B., 89 , 316
Bottero, Alain, 322
Bourdieu, Pierre, 155 , 310
Bourgois, Philippe, 291
Brahma, 266
Brahman, 146 , 154 , 166 , 188 -189, 202 -204, 224 , 226 , 228 -229, 231 -232, 236 -237, 250 -253, 263 , 265 , 272 -273, 275 , 277
Brahma Purana , 172 , 320
brain, 75 , 77 , 240 , 292 ;
gross pathology of, 21 , 60 , 64 -65, 79 , 82 -83;
Indian, 19 ;
Western, 20.
See also mind; weakness, of brain/mind
Brass, Paul, 126 , 318
breakdown, Heideggarian, 6 , 16
breath control, 285
Brindavin, 41 , 111 , 115 , 265
Browne, Richard, 66
Buddhism, 93 , 229 , 281 , 283
Bula Babu, 227 -228, 232
Burgess, Ernest, 97 , 316 , 321
Butalia, Pankaj, 115 , 318
Butler, Judith, 38 , 310 , 312
Butler, Robert, 314
C
Calcutta, 24 , 41 , 116 -120, 139 , 141 , 159 , 171 , 182 , 187 -188, 190 -191, 197 , 199 , 220 , 225 , 264 , 278 , 297 -299, 301 , 307
Callahan, Daniel, 71 , 315 , 324
cancer, 110 , 189
Canguilhem, Georges, 60 , 63 -64, 314
capital, 22 , 38 , 138 , 217 , 268 ;
health, 36 ;
spiritual, 265 ;
symbolic, 133
Capra, Fritjof, 129 , 317 , 319
Caraka Samhita , 110 , 129 -130, 132
caregiver/caretaker, 33 , 54 -56
Carstairs, George Morris, 166 -166, 170 , 178 , 242 , 268 , 271 , 320 , 324
Cartesian dualism, 124 , 213 -214
caste, 33 , 49 , 223.
See also Chamar; hierarchy
category fallacy, 34 -35
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 310
Chaman Lal, and family, 234
Chamar, xxii , 41 -42, 137 , 212 , 224 , 226 -232, 235 -237, 241 , 246 , 251 -252, 282 , 307 -308, 322.
See also Dalit; Harijan; Untouchable
Chandogya Upanisad , 188
Chandra, V., 311
chapati, 230 , 233 , 243 -245, 247 , 249 , 251 , 263 , 266 , 269 , 274
Charcot, J. M., 62 -65, 67 , 72 , 83 , 85 , 310 , 314
charisma, 128 , 281 -286
charpoy, 182 , 185 , 237 -239, 241 -243, 249 , 269
Chatterjee, Partha, 173 , 309 , 320
Chattopadhyaya, Debiprasad, 187 -188
Chaudhari, A. D., 311
Chaudhari, D. H., 311
Chen, Martha, 14 , 99 , 268 , 271 , 310 , 317 , 324
Chicago School, 154 , 292
chicken, 228 -229
childbirth, 210
China, 184
Chittupur, 243 -244, 275
Chopra, Deepak, 128 , 304 -305
Christianity, 94 , 118 , 204 , 221 -222, 224 -225, 253 , 288 , 303 -305
"Chronic cerebral insufficiency" (CCI), 219
Chui, Helena Chang, 28 , 311 , 315
Chyavana, 112 , 131 -132, 305
Chyawanprash, 112 , 131 -137, 198 , 317 -318
Chyawanshakti, 136 , 138
circulation, 150 ; of suffering, 49 , 53 -54, 58
citizen, 174 , 289
civil society, 250
Clarfield, A. M., 311
class, 33 , 41 , 49 -50, 195 , 213 -214, 233 , 242 , 267 , 301 , 310
classification, 25
Clifford, James, 33 , 311
climacteric, 21 , 33 , 75 , 74 -79, 83 , 208 , 219 -220, 234 , 292
climate, 21 -23
Coffman, J. D., 322
cognitive, 27 -29, 57 , 77 -80, 126 , 205 , 208 , 216 , 244 , 292
Cohen, Lawrence, 312 , 315 -321, 323
Cohn, Bernard, xxii , 39 , 241 , 278 , 293 , 309 , 314 , 317 , 323
Cole, Thomas R., 183 , 313 -315, 321
commodity/commodification, 128 , 133 -138, 140 , 147 , 270 -271, 301
commons, 192 , 225 , 226
communitas , 56 , 193 , 196
confessional, 17 , 20 , 57 -58, 85 -86
Congress Party, 149 -150, 174 , 227 , 285
Connolly family, 53 -55, 59 -60, 81 -82
consciousness, conflicted, 270
corporeality, 22 , 289
Courtright, Paul, 320
cow, 264 -266, 270
Cowgill, Donald, 96 , 98 , 101 -102, 316 -317
cramming, 139 -140, 187 , 201
Cranach, Lucas, 219
cremation ground, 266 , 272 , 280
culture, 7 , 22 , 32 , 48 , 105 , 159 , 288 -289, 297 , 301 , 307 -308
Culture and Personality, idiom of, 161
Cumming, Elaine, 321
curail , 258 , 271
Current Science , 84
curse, 247 , 267 , 269 , 279 -281, 283
Curtin, Sharon R., 314
D
dada , 157
dain , 250 , 258 , 270 -271
Dainik, 174
Dak, T. N., 316
Dalit, 224 , 226 , 228 , 322.
See also Chamar
Daly, Mary, 86
Daniel, E. Valentine, 155 , 178 , 317 , 320 , 324
Danielou, Alain, 203 , 205 , 321
darsana , 245
darshan, 279 , 281 -285
Das, Veena, 178 , 309 , 320 -322
Dash, Bhagwan, 323
Dasharath, 169 -170, 180 , 211
Dasovas, 217 -220, 298 , 300 -301
daughter, 84 , 118 , 123 , 125 , 131 , 160 -161, 166 , 171 , 173 , 179 , 182 , 185 , 193 -194, 207 , 209 -210, 214 -215, 239 -240, 246 , 251 , 253 -254, 263 -264, 280
daughter-in-law (bahu ), 119 , 123 , 141 , 159 -160, 171 , 173 , 179 , 182 , 189 -190, 192 , 194 , 196 , 201 -202, 209 , 239 , 242 -243, 246 , 248 , 251 , 275 , 297 , 299 -300, 323
De, Sushil Kumar, 157 , 320
death, 63 , 71 , 115 , 124 , 161 , 182 , 192 , 213 , 229 , 250 , 273 , 275 , 283 , 287 -288, 301 -302, 304
de Beauvoir, Simone, 97 , 183 , 317 , 321
decay (decrepitude, degeneration), xvii , 19 , 20 -22, 24 , 63 -64, 66 , 76 , 130 , 172 , 275 , 287 , 288 , 289 , 302
deference, 180 , 246
deferral, 161 , 166 , 168 , 180 , 190 , 223 , 240 , 242 , 286
De Fleury, Maurice, 315
Dehradun, 41 , 107 , 109 , 115 , 190
Delhi, 41 , 87 , 100 , 107 -109, 114 , 124 , 158 , 177 , 190 -191, 195 , 199 , 205 , 209 , 260 , 276 , 287 , 302 -303
delirium, 29
dementia, 127 , 199 , 292 -293, 303 ;
Alzheimer's-type, 26 , 29 -30, 45 ;
atherosclerotic, 26 , 80 ;
"biomedicalization" of, 6 , 61 ;
causes of, 21 , 78 ;
"cross-cultural" research on, 29 ;
definition of, xv , 15 , 24 -26;
diagnosis of, 30 , 32 , 36 ;
epidemiology of, 15 , 17 , 19 , 29 -32;
gender and, 30 ;
globalization of, 46 ;
irreversible, 29 ;
mixed, 27 ;
multi-infarct, 26 -27, 31 , 56 , 69 ;
ontological status of, 26 -27, 29 , 33 ;
presenile, 27 , 68 -69, 80 ;
pseudo, 29 , 56 , 60 ;
reversible, 29 , 56 , 60 ;
rhetoric of, 37 -38, 56 -57;
senile, 15 , 18 , 23 , 32 , 34 , 64 , 67 , 69 , 87 , 200 , 210 , 214 -218;
treatment of, 48 ;
vascular, 26 -27, 29 -32, 69 , 218.
See also Alzheimer's disease; senility
demographic transition, 35 -36, 216 , 303
demography, 31 , 36 , 92 ;
alarmist, 4 -5, 60 , 71 , 89 -91, 293 -294
dependency, 3 , 5 , 59 , 74 , 81 , 83 -84, 91 , 117 , 170 , 197 , 233 , 266 , 270
dependency theory, 100 -101
depression, 29 , 56 , 133 , 215 -216
Derne, Steven, 320
Desai, I. P., 103 , 317
Desai, K. G., 316
Desai, Morarji, 158 , 320
desire, 33 , 78 , 144 -147, 172 -173, 188 , 198 , 212 , 220 , 236 , 275 , 283
De Souza, Alfred, 100 , 314 , 317
detail men, 127 , 217 -218, 297 -298, 300 -301
Devi, Mahasweta, 324
Devraha Baba, 41 , 280 -285, 302
Dhanvantari, 129 , 245
dharma, 39 , 176 , 185 , 206 , 237 , 251 , 280
dharmasastra , 40 , 113 , 142 , 206 , 312
dhat , 216.
See also semen loss
Dhobi, 224 , 237
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), 26 , 66 , 201 , 219 ; III-R, 26 -29, 204 , 214 , 312 , 321 ; 26 -29, 293 , 311
dialectic, 22
diaspora, Indian, 128
diet, 31
Dieulafoy, G., 314
difference, 19 , 22 , 29 , 30 , 38 , 48 -49, 212 , 232 , 292 -293;
age as, xv , 4 -5, 33 , 49 , 71 , 79 , 213 ;
behavioral, 226 , 295
Dirks, Nicolas, 309 , 322
"disadvantaged elder," 89 , 92
disease, ontological conception of, 63 -64
Djurfeldt, Goran, 108 , 317
dog, 171 , 207 , 244 , 263 -268, 271 , 274 -277, 283 , 303
domestic, 251 , 268 , 274 -276, 283 , 285
Doniger, Wendy, 8 , 144 , 310 , 319
Doordarshan, 41
dotage, 72 -74, 78 , 85 , 124
doubling, 269 , 271 , 283
Dreze, Jean, 14 , 99 , 268 , 310 , 327 , 324
dualism; anthropological, xvi , 38 ;
Cartesian, 124 , 213 -214;
Nascherian, 71
Dulari, 13 -14, 35 , 185 , 230 , 248 -249, 255 , 303
Dumont, Louis, 154 , 163 , 165 , 171 , 178 , 230 -231, 237
Durrant, C. M., 75 , 310 , 315
du Toit, 208 , 321
Dutta, Ranjana, 321
dying space, 37 , 52 -53, 178 , 180 -183, 186 , 197 , 237 -238, 241 , 269 , 276 , 283 , 303 -304
E
East Boston Senior Health Project, 311
Eastern Master, 128
Ecclesiastes, 66
Eck, Diana, 281 , 322 , 324
Edgerton, Franklin, 319
Edwardth, Joey, 100 -101, 103 , 317
embodiment, 24 -25, 32 , 37 , 51 -52, 71 , 75 , 120 , 123 -127, 140 , 161 , 170 , 184 , 208 , 211 -212, 216 , 232 , 238 , 250 , 274 , 277 , 282 , 286 , 288 , 292 , 294 -297, 302 -304
enchantment, 84
endocrine, 76
Engels, Frederic, 187
English medicine (angrezi dava ), 133 -134
Epics, 93 , 113 , 142
epistemology, 90 , 95 -96, 106
Epstein, T. Scarlett, 102 -103, 317
ergot mesylates, 201 , 218
Erikson, Erik, 212
erotic triangle, 159.
See also Kesari Jivan, triangle
Estes, Caroll, 116 , 318
eugenics, 67 -68, 76
Evans-Pritchard, E. E., 324
excess, 20 , 28 , 31 , 45 , 49 -50, 54 , 60 , 63 , 65 , 83 , 85 , 119 , 196 , 310
excluded middle, 18
excrement, 23 , 146 , 202
exorcism, 41
explanatory model (EM), 75 , 301
F
Fall, 90 , 93 , 103 -106, 194 , 223 , 226 , 232 , 237
falling, 52 -53
family, 114 -115, 180 , 206 , 261 , 270 -271, 301 ;
bad, 11 , 19 , 33 , 49 , 84 , 87 , 103 , 115 , 123 -124, 190 , 199 , 201 , 206 , 238 -239, 243 -245, 247 , 255 , 270 , 275 , 298 , 302 -303, 305 ;
Hindu/Muslim, 10 -11, 204 , 236 ;
joint/extended, 93 , 113 , 203 , 242 , 271 ;
joint/extended, decline of, 7 , 17 , 87 , 92 , 102 -106, 115 , 118 -120, 180 , 190 ; "Rosy," 100 ;
Western, 17 , 19
Fanon, Frantz, 104
Farmer, Paul, 355
Farmitalia, 217 -220, 297 -298
father, 68 , 121 , 123 -124, 133 -134, 138 , 140 , 142 , 144 -145, 157 , 159 -174, 179 , 181 , 189 , 193 , 197 , 201 -202, 209 , 239 , 242 -243, 271 , 277 , 283 , 285 -286, 288 , 302 , 304 ;
absent, 163 -165
Favret-Saada, Jeanne, 324
Ferguson, James, 291 , 312 , 324
Fernandes, Walter, 314 , 317
Filliozat, Jean, 129 , 319
film, Hindi, 15 , 25 , 43 , 123 -124, 136
Fischer, David, 101 , 317
FitzGerald, Frances, 315
Fletcher, Mrs., 52 , 70
Flint, Austin, 314
flow models, 26 , 65 , 69 , 199 , 218
fluidity, 105 , 154 -156, 175 , 178 , 292
Folstein, Marshal F., 311
Folstein MMS, 311
forgetfulness. See memory loss
Forster, E. M., 21 , 310
Foucault, Michel, 116 -117, 318
Fox, Patrick, 69 , 80 -81, 313 -314
frailty, 81
Fraser, Nancy, 321
Frazer, James, 288
Freeman, H. L., 315 -316
Freeman, James M., 322
Freud, Sigmund, 126 , 162 , 158 , 268 -270, 318 , 324
Fuller, Solomon C., 314 -315
futility, 71 , 294
G
Gadow, Sally A., 183 , 321
Galenic medicine, 74 -75
Galloway, D., 76 -77, 315
Gandhi, Indira, 94 , 136 , 149 , 150 , 228 , 260 , 281 , 285
Gandhi, Mohandas, 203 -204, 282
Gandhi, Rajiv, 149 -150, 228 , 285
Ganesha, 166
Ganga (Ganges), 1 , 3 , 9 -10, 39 -42, 221 , 223 -224, 227 , 238 , 250 , 264 , 266 -267, 279 , 284 , 295 , 307 -308
Ganga Jali, and family, 241 , 248 , 249
Gangrade, K. D., 89 , 316
Geertz, Clifford, xvi
gender, 5 , 33 , 74 , 77 -79, 160 , 195 , 211 , 233 , 235 , 267 , 275 -276
generation, 51 , 53 , 93 , 121 , 156 -157, 160 165-166, 216 , 230 , 241 -242, 270 , 281 , 293
George, T, 209 , 321
geriatrics, 29 , 41 , 62 -63, 69 , 86 , 109 -112;
discourse of, 77 ;
geriatric paradox, 60 , 69 -71, 200 , 219 , 296 ;
ideology of, 77 , 79 , 295
Geriatrics , 62 , 69 , 76 -77
Geri-forte, 111 , 133 -134, 150 -151, 167
gerontological sublime, 287
gerontological utopia, 91 , 97
gerontology, 4 , 7 , 15 -17, 60 , 70 -71, 87 -106, 119 , 183 -184, 287 , 293 -294;
international, 94 -100.
See also object, gerontological
gerontopolis, 81 , 270
ghar , 179 -180, 193 , 242
Ghar Kali, 119 -120, 150 , 159 -161, 169 , 171 -174, 270 , 273 , 299 -300
gift, 81 , 138 , 146 , 165 , 170 , 220 , 225 , 227 -228, 231 -232, 243 , 251 , 253 , 270 , 277 , 280 -282, 285
Ginsberg, Allen, 14 , 310
ginseng, 133 -136, 138 , 220
Gleason, W. Stanton, 315
global/local, 37 , 43 , 45 -46
globalization, 25 , 32
Goffman, Erring, 116 , 318
Golden Age, 93 , 100 -103, 105
Golden Isles, 100 , 102 -103
Good, Byron, 301 , 313 , 319
Good, Mary-Jo Delvecchio, 313 , 319
Gore, M. S., 317
gothic, 21
Goyal, R. S., 316
"granny," 47 , 51 -52, 72 , 81 -82, 185 , 313
Graves, Amy B., 30 , 311
Gray, John N., 317
Griffith, Ralph, 121 , 318
Gubrium, Jaber, 7 , 61 , 80 -81, 310 , 313 -314, 318
Gupta, Akhil, 291 , 312 , 324
guru, 110 , 137 , 163 , 199 , 203 , 228 , 234 , 251
H
Hachinski, Vladimir, 69 , 314
Haggard, H. Rider, 22 , 291 , 310 , 324
Halford, Henry, 75 , 315
Haraway, Donna, xvi , 8 , 309 -310
Hardwar, 3 , 41 , 113
Harijan, 227 , 243.
See also Chamar
Harinath Prasad (Masterji), and family, 175 , 235 , 239 -240
Harrison, Mark, 311
Hasbro, 139
Hasegawa, K., 311
hava /wind, 154 , 244 -245
Havighurst, Robert J., 321
health transition, 84 , 216
heart, 124 , 195 -196, 212
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 22 , 310
hegemony, 6 , 37 , 79 , 93 , 103 , 114 -115, 120 , 135 , 190 , 212 , 232 , 270 , 283 , 286 , 288 -289, 295
Helmont, Jean Baptiste, 76
HelpAge India, 88 , 90 , 106 , 266
Henderson, A. S., 311
Henry, William H., 321
heteroglossia, 267
Hidayatullah, Arshad, 311
Hidayatullah, M., 311
hierarchy, 20 , 164 -165, 178 -179, 183 , 228 , 231 -232, 237 ;
revolving, 231
hijra , 163 , 320
Himalayan, 133 -134
Himalayas, 58
Hinduism, 1 -4, 10 , 39 -40, 93 , 143 -144, 202 -204, 206 , 228 , 237 , 252 , 264 , 278 , 282 ;
Brahma Kumari, 144 -145;
nationalist, 203 -204, 284 -285;
Vaishnavite, 142
Hindu Succession Act of 1956, 25
Hoffman, Deborah, 55 , 313
Holmes, Lowell, 96 , 101 -102, 316 -317
homeopathy, 40
Homma, A., 311
homosexuality, 68 , 135 , 161 -166, 239 , 322
hook-swinging, 2
hot/cold, 23 , 153 -155, 181 , 213 , 233 -234, 238 , 246 , 293
hot brain/mind (dimag ), 147 , 153 -157, 170 , 175 , 215 -216, 230 , 238 , 244 -245, 247 -248, 252 , 254 , 292
householdership/householder (grhasthya/grhast ), 113 -115, 196 , 202 -203, 205 , 214 , 237 , 251 , 275 , 277
Howes, David, 324
Hubert, Henri, 319
Humphry, Derek, 61 , 313
hybridity, 269
hypochondriasis, 67 , 295
hysteria, 208
I
icon, 89 , 128 , 178 , 191 , 213 , 253 , 265
identity, 120 , 123 , 171 , 214 , 228 , 231 , 283 , 286 , 288 -289, 295
illusion of control, 116
impotence/potency, 133 -136, 165 , 212 , 214
Inden, Ronald, 7 , 154 , 310
index, 128
Indian Lunacy Act of 1912, 24 , 259
"Indian Mutiny," 2
Indian Succession Act of 1925, 24
India Today , 18 , 23 , 30 , 32 , 176 , 299
industrialization, 17 , 31 , 89 , 92
infantalism, 21 , 174
Inquisition, 72 -73
institutionalization/deinstitutionalization, 33 , 46 , 56 -57, 61 -62, 71 -72, 83 -84, 86 , 116 -120, 125 , 274 , 298
internalization, 163
International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM), 112
internationalism, 91 , 93 -100, 104
International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD), 28 -29, 45 , 66
International Year of the Aged, 93
International Year of thc Woman, 117 -118
interpretive, 121 , 159 , 178 , 233
interstice, 206 -207, 265 -275, 278 , 281 , 283 -284
intersubjectivity, 300
involution, 67 -68, 76
irony, 213 , 250 , 274 , 295
Islam/Muslim, 150 , 174 , 226 , 235 , 252 , 308
iteration. See repetition
"It's just old age," 62 , 69 , 71 , 184
J
Jablonski, Henryk, 94
Jackson, J. Hughlings, 65 , 314
Janata Dal, 149 , 157 , 174
Japan, 29 -30, 209
jaributi , 128 , 134
javani , 153
Jawahar, and family, 227
Jena, B., 316
Jensheng, 134 -135
Jesus, 228 , 251 , 291 , 304
Jhalli Ram, and family, 227
Jhandu xxii , 137 -138, 151 , 240 , 248 -249
jiva, 143 , 213
jivanmukta , 176 , 279 -280
John the evangelist, 221 , 253
Johnson, Colleen, 33 , 311
Johnson, Frank, 33 , 311
Johnson, M., 317
Jones, William, 173 , 320
Jordens, J. T. E, 318
Jorm, A. E, 311
juxtaposition, xvi , 6 -8
K
Kabir, 213 , 228 , 251
kacca mahal , 41
Kakar, Sudhir, 161 , 164 -166, 170 , 178 , 186 , 242 , 271 , 297 , 320 -321, 324 -325
Kali, 1 -2, 4 , 162 , 309.
See also Ghar Kali
kama , 185
kamzori . See weakness
Kanpur, 194 , 260
Kapur, Sohaila, 324
Kapura, and family, 246
karma, 144 -145, 237 , 284
Karpatriji, Swami, 10 , 202 -205, 282 , 308
Kashi. See Varanasi
kasivasi , 176 , 206 , 302.
See also widow, kasivasi
Kathasaritsagara , 112 , 145 , 172 , 219 , 279 , 288
Katzman, R., 311
Kaufman, Sharon, 183 , 185 , 211 -212, 321
Kaul family, 201 -209
Kennedy, Henry, 74 -75, 315
Kerala, 23 , 36
Kesari Jivan, 133 -134, 136 -137, 151 , 198 , 242 ;
triangle, 134 , 158 -161, 202
Kevorkian, Jack, 58 , 60 -61, 303 -305, 313 , 325
Khare, R. H., 228 , 231 , 236 -237, 252 , 322 -323
Khosa, Rajah, 181 , 321
Kierkegaard, Soren, xvi , 89 , 309
king, 145 -146, 158 , 162 , 167 -169, 179 , 288 -289
Kingery, John, 81 -82, 185
King Lear , 5 , 15 , 18 , 51 , 74 , 123 -125, 206 , 246 , 316 , 318
Kipling, Rudyard, 21 , 310
Kleinman, Arthur, 177 , 301 , 310 -311, 313 , 319 , 321 , 325
Kleinman, Joan, 177 , 310 , 321
Klooster, Gerard, 303 -304, 313
knowledge, 251 , 270 , 301 -302;
first/second/third person, 33 -34, 127 , 154 -156, 176 , 184 -185, 193 , 251 , 293 , 297 ;
imperial, 139 , 201
Kohli, D. R., 316
Koki, 207 , 272
Kolenda, Pauline, 216 , 317 , 322
Kraepelin, Emil, 65 -68, 79 -80, 84 , 126 , 314 -315
Kramer, Heinrich, 315
Krishna, 141 , 251 , 274
Krishnan, T. N., 312
Kugler, J., 329
Kumar, Deepak, 316
Kumar, Ashok, 317 , 319
Kumar, N. L., 87 -88, 90 , 106 -110, 112 , 209
Kumar, Nita, 40 , 43 , 310 , 312 , 320 -321
Kumar, Sukrita, 156 , 158 , 171
Kumar, Vijay, and family, 195
Kumbh Mela, 41 , 284 -285, 302
Kurtz, Stanley, 390, 324
kutipravesika , 132 -133
L
lakarbaggha (hyena), 259 -261
lakarsunghva , 257 -260, 267 -268, 270 , 279 , 283
Lal, Devi, 157 -158, 171 , 293
Langer, Ellen J., 318
Laqueur, Thomas, 75 , 315
Larson, Abigail, 51 -53
Larson, Gerald, 142 , 319
Laslett, Peter, 100 , 317
Latour, Bruno, xvi , 309
Leach, Edmund R., 320
Lekhraj, Dada, 144
Lellouch, Alain, 314
Leslie, Charles, 126 , 318
Levin, Jack, 321
Levin, William C., 321
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 150 , 154 , 320
life course, 223 ;
disenchantment of, 75 ;
postmodern life course, 60 , 70 , 184
life extension, 110
Lindberg, Staffan, 108 , 317
liquefaction, 21 -23
"little old lady," 70
Little Sisters of the Poor, 118
Lock, Margaret, 184 , 209 , 312 , 315 , 321
loneliness, 175 -176, 190 , 206 , 241 , 303
longevity, 66 -67, 110 , 127 , 130 , 155.
See also Rasayana ; superannuation
Luborsky, Mark R., 315
Lucknow, 90 -91, 228 , 236 -237, 260
Lutz, Catherine, 34 , 311
Lyman, Karen, 6 , 61 -62, 80 , 310 , 313
M
Mace, Nancy L., 313 ;
The 36-Hour Day , 54 -55, 58
Macfarlane, Alan, 74 , 81 , 315
Maclachlan, Daniel, 66 , 68 , 310 , 314
Madan, T. N., 7 , 185 , 236 , 310 , 317 , 321 , 323
madness, 123 -125, 190 , 195 , 201 -202, 205 , 207 -208, 239 , 255 , 266 , 279.
See also pagalpan; pagli
Madras (Chennai), 18 , 36 , 41 , 109
Madurai, 36 , 41 , 109 , 216 , 218
M.A.G.S., 109
Mahabharata , 102 , 153 , 166 -168, 176 , 182 , 199 , 280 , 320
Maharaja of Varanasi, 227 -228, 232 , 237
Mahdihassan, S., 317
mai-bap , 163
Maine, Henry, 22 , 139 -140, 187 , 319
Malamoud, Charles, 231 , 322
malis , 182
Mallah, 1 -5
Mallaya, Vijay 217
Manav Kalyan Kendra, 113 -115
Manga the widow, 272 -274
Mangeshkar, Lata, 149 -151
Mangri, and family, 239 -240, 249 -250, 252 , 255
Mani, Lata, 309
Manton, Kenneth, 98 , 101 , 317
mantra-tantra 137 , 215 -216, 234
marginality, 124 , 179 , 212 -213, 220 , 242 , 268 , 270 , 274 , 302
Marglin, Frédérique, 178 , 321 -322
marnevala , 238 , 249
Marriott, McKim, 144 , 154 -155, 171 ,175, 178 , 311 , 317 , 319 -320, 322 , 324.
See also unmatching
Martin, G. M., 316
Marwari Mataji, 10 , 23 , 202 , 282 , 307
Marxism, 187 -188
Mashima (of Bengali Quarter), 263 -267, 272 , 279
mast , 211
masturbation, 135 , 214 , 216 -217
materialization, 32 , 38 , 48 , 71 , 171 , 280 , 310
math (monastery), 278
Matilal, B. K., 142 , 319
Mausaji, and family, 243 -245, 275 , 323
Mauss, Marcel, 310 , 319
meaning, 183 , 228 , 246 , 248 , 269 , 301 -303
meaninglessness, 213 , 277
Mearns, David J., 317
medicalization, 29 , 62 , 72 , 80 , 140 , 209 , 216 , 219
Meena, and family, 189 -190
Mehta, B. S., and family, 200 -201, 211 -213, 321
melancholy, 72 -74
memento mori, 66 , 74
memory, 22 , 24 , 27 -28, 59 , 61 , 67 , 121 , 123 , 126 -127, 129 -133, 136 -147, 216 -217, 292 , 298 ;
loss, 40 , 50 , 53 , 59 , 61 , 79 , 126 , 130 , 156 , 197 , 199 , 201 , 205 , 210 , 214 -216, 245 , 292 , 296 ;
social, 104 ;
subtle, 144
"Memory" (game), 139
Memory Banks, 138 , 239
Mencher, Joan, 322
menopause, 68 , 75 -79, 206 , 208 -209, 215 , 234 -235, 292
Mental Status Examination (MSE), 33 -35, 37 , 215 , 311
Meri BhArat MahaN , 149 -150
Mercitron, 304 -305
metabolic enhancer, 218 -220
methodology, 6 -8, 10
metonym, 104 , 114
Meyer, J. S., 311
Martin, Emily, 315
middle age, 27 , 79 -80, 126 , 214 , 217 -218, 310
middle class, 8 , 36 , 89 , 104 -108, 120 , 127 -128, 136 , 177 , 189 -191, 193 -195, 207 , 225 , 269 , 307
millennarian, 1 -5, 269
Miller, Joan G., 317 , 321
mind, 25 , 124 , 127 , 212 , 255 ,
buddhi , 131 , 156 ;
dimag , 240 , 243 , 249 ;
man , 212 -213;
manas ,130, 245 ;
matha , 244 ,
medha , 130 -131.
See also brain; weakness, of brain/mind
Ministry of Welfare, Government of India, 41 , 94 95, 316
Minois, Georges, 101 , 317
mirror, 212 , 280 , 283
Mishra, Saraswati, 316 , 321
Mishra family, 209 -210, 221
misrccognition, 25
missing persons, 41
Mithal, C. P., 320
Mitra, Aloka, 87 , 116 -118, 298
modernity, 19 , 31 , 62 , 104 -106, 113 , 117 , 119 -120, 136 , 159 , 173 , 203 , 241 , 287 -289, 302 -303
modernization, 17 , 89 , 96 -98, 100 -105
Mohanty, S. P., 316
Moinson, Louis, 315
moksha, 39 -40, 143 -144, 185
monstrosity, 270 -271
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, 21 , 310
Moore, Sally Falk, 311
Moore, William, 311
Mora, George, 315
moral, 17 , 20 ;
decay, 21 , 66 ;
economy, 66 , 79 , 138 , 244 ;
hygiene, 65 , 67 ;
world, 19 , 33 , 177 , 301
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 187
Morris, Edmund, 313
motevala , 226 , 232
mother, 116 -120, 126 , 142 , 150 , 159 -166, 169 , 171 , 173 -174, 182 , 187 , 189 , 197 -198, 200 -201, 210 , 243 , 254 -255, 265 -266, 270 -271, 297 , 302 -303; "bad," 162 , 271
Mother India, 150
mother-in-law (sas ), 160 , 171 , 173 , 179 , 182 , 189 -190, 196 , 201 , 246 , 275 , 297 -300
Mother Teresa, 14 , 18 , 255 , 278 , 303 , 305
Mughalsarai, 308
Muller, F. Max, 288
Munn, Nancy D., 324
Munna Lal, and family, 251 -252
Mussourie, 107 , 109 , 190 , 193 , 209 , 221 , 248
Myerhoff, Barbara, 158 , 287 , 320 , 324
N
Nader, Laura, 8 , 310 , 321
naga, 226
Nagwa, xxii , 13 -14, 35 -36, 42 , 106 , 108 , 137 , 175 , 182 , 206 , 211 -213, 216 , 221 -243, 246 , 249 -255, 270 , 278 -279, 293 , 295 , 301 , 303 , 307
Nanak, Guru, 228 , 251
Nandanagar, 24 , 37 , 42 , 190 -195, 207 -209, 281 , 294
Nandi, S., 298 , 300
Nandy, Ashis, 104 -105, 120 , 163 -164, 166 , 317 -318, 320
Naraindas, Harish, 311
Narayan, and family, 227 -229, 235 , 239 , 251
narrative, 17 -18, 31 , 71 , 84 , 103 -106, 123 , 159 , 165 -166, 168 , 198 , 202 , 210 , 232 , 242 , 300 ;
illness; 216
Nascher, I. L., 62 -65, 67 -69, 71 -72, 76 -79, 81 , 83 , 310 , 314 -315
nation, 4 , 11 , 19 , 59
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Science (India), 39
National Institutes of Health (U.S.), 69
Nava Nir, l16-120, 298 , 301
Nayer, S. K., 109 -110, 112 -113
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 149 -150, 203 , 310
neo-rasayana , 133 -136, 217 , 220 , 304
Neugarten, Bernice, 183 , 321
neurasthenia, 76
neuroleptics, 201
neurology, 41
New Age, 45 , 305
Newsweek , 5 , 32 , 53 -54, 59 -60
New york Times , 61
Neysmith, Sheila, 100 -101, 103 , 317
nicergoline, 217 -218
Nichter, Mark, 319
Nigeria, 30 -31
niyam , 141 -142, 194 , 212 , 302
"no aging," 5 , 88 -89, 95 , 287 , 293
nongovernmental organization (NGO), 87
normal/pathological, 24 , 49 , 61 -64, 66 -69, 71 , 76 -77, 79 -80, 82 , 219.
See also aging, normal
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH), 299
nursing home. See old age home
Nydegger, Corinne, 100 , 102 , 317
O
Oberoi, Harjot, 310
Obeyesekere, Gananath, 271 , 320 , 322 , 324
object, gerontological, 87 -89, 92 , 106 , 113 , 115
Oddie, Geoffrey A., 309
Oedipus, 152 , 242 ; Indian, 159 , 161 , 166 , 320
O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. See Doniger, Wendy
Ojha , 137 , 234 , 251
Ojha, Divakar, 317 , 319
Ojha, J. K., 319
old age, xvii , 4 , 21 , 33 , 63 , 123 -124, 127 , 130 , 172 , 183 -184, 190 , 195 , 205 , 212 , 239 , 250 -251, 275 , 285 , 288 , 294 -296, 304 ;
burhapa , 235 ;
buzurg , 212 , 235 , 237 ;
definition of, 235 ;
jara , 112 , 212 , 251 , 323 ;
split, 24 , 47 , 60 , 66 , 71 , 213 ;
vrddhavastha , 212 , 235 , 323
old age home, 41 , 52 , 55 -57, 61 , 81 -82, 107 , 113 -120, 296 , 298
old man, 167 , 172 , 212 , 268 , 271 , 274 -277, 281
old woman, 3 -4, 62 , 67 , 70 , 72 -79, 82 , 85 -86, 116 -120, 173 , 206 , 240 , 253 , 258 , 263 -276;
of Balua 1 -6, 11 , 20 , 150 , 269 , 272 , 309 ;
voting, 173 -174, 253 , 283 , 289
Olivelle, Patrick, 312
Orgren, Rosemary; 96 , 98 , 316
Orientalism, 37 , 40 , 42 , 150
Ostor, Akos, 324
Osuntokun, B. O., 30 , 36 , 311
Overbeck-Wright, A. W., 23
P
Padma Purana , 172 , 320
pagalpan , 201 , 215 , 249.
See also madness
pagli , 3 , 13 , 207 , 250 , 265 -268, 271 -274, 298 , 300.
See also madness
pakka mahal , 41 , 191 , 278
Palmore, Erdman, 98 , 101 , 317
Palthe, Van Wulfften, 311
pancakarma , 129 , 132
Panchkosi Road, 224 -226
Panditji, 114
pantaloon, 67 , 79
paraphraxis, 126
Parashurama, 153 , 166
parody, 48 , 50
Parry, Jonathan, 43 , 312 , 324
Parsi, 36
Parsons, Talcott, 97 , 316
Patel, Raojibhai Manibhai, 320
Pathak, Rajesh, 234 -235, 247 , 254
Pathak, Ratnesh, 257
Pati, R. N., 316
patua , 119 - 320
Paul, Father, 221 , 225 , 240
pedagogy, 22
pensioner, 89 , 92 , 103 , 113 , 115
perfectionism, 63 , 67 , 78
performative, 17 , 56 -57, 77 , 79 , 104 , 170 , 179 ,184, 532, 242 , 249 , 282
Pershad, Dwarka, 311
personal law, 24 -25
pharmaceutical industry, 29 , 38 , 41 , 80 , 84 , 127 -128, 133 , 199 , 217 , 220
phenomenology, 123 , 163 , 183 , 185 , 208 , 211 -212, 239 , 269 ;
of voice, 37
Pinel, Philippe, 65
Pioneer , 1 -3
pitta , 153
placebo, 218 -219
pneumonia, 83
Podolsky, Edward, 75 , 310 , 315
police, 2 , 22 , 35 , 41 , 225 , 232 , 250 , 253 -254, 258 -261, 280 -281, 302 -303
poverty panorama, 108
Potter, Karl, 319
practice, xvii , 33 , 37 , 48 , 84 , 87 , 94 , 126 , 297
pramana , 3 , 142
pranam , 174
Premchand, 119 , 135 , 223 , 271 -274, 577, 318 , 322 , 324
print media, 128
probate, 24
process, xvii , 33 , 79
Propp, Vladimir, 104 , 317
Prus, C. R., 62 -64, 314
psychiatry, 41 , 65 -66, 112 , 133 -134, 189 , 200 -201, 205 , 208 , 214 -217, 298 -300
psychoanalysis, 159 , 161 , 164 , 166 , 186 , 271
psychosis, 64 ;
involutional, 66 -68;
senile, 65
puja, 199 , 253 , 282 , 307
Pune, 189 -190
Puranas, 93 , 142 , 171 -173, 275
pure/polluted, 231 -232
Q
Quadagno, Jill, 101 -102, 317
Quigley, Declan, 322
R
Rabinow, Paul, xvi , 49 , 309 -310, 312 , 314
Rabins, Peter, 313 ; The 36-Hour Day , 54 -55, 58
race, 23
Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., 285 , 323 -324
Rader, J., 313
Raghu Ram, and family, 240 -241, 252 , 255
Raheja, Gloria Goodwin, 322
Rai family, 198 -199
Ram, 3 , 93 , 113 , 169 -170, 251 , 309
Ramachandran, M. G., 283
Ramamurti, Mantha, 311
Ramamurthy, P. V., 321
Ramanujan, A. K., 159 , 161 , 166 , 317 , 320
Ramaseshan, S., 316
Ramayana , 102 , 166 , 168 -169, 320 -321
Ramji, 228 -229
Ram Lakhan, 226 , 235 , 240 -241, 252 , 255
Ram Lakhan (film), 25
Ram Lila, 168
Ram Nath, and family, 233
Ramnath, Rajalakshmi, 316
Ramu Baba, 278 -279
Rao, M. S. A., 317
Rao, Narasimha, 153
Rao, N. T. Rama, 283
Rao, Raja, 14 , 310
rasa , 245
Rasayana , 93 , 111 -112, 127 -138, 145 -146, 150 , 158 -159, 320
Ravi Das, 222 , 224 -225, 228 -229, 234 , 244 , 251 , 253 254, 322
Ravindrapuri, 41 -42, 138 , 182 , 190 -200, 207 208, 210 , 240 , 253 -254, 267
Ray, Dijendra, 157
Ray family, Calcutta, 141 -142, 297 -301
Reagan, Ronald, 25 , 46 , 53 , 58 -60, 94
reason, 21 -22, 49 , 525, 289 , 292 , 305
recognition, 123 , 170 , 288
recollection, xvi -xvii
recuperation, xvii
Reid, Janice, 102 , 317
rejuvenation. See Rasayana
renunciation. See Sannyasa
request/demand, 73 -74, 83 , 170 , 269 , 284
repetition, 7 , 17 -18, 49 , 54 , 89 , 103 -105, 166 , 175 , 265 , 272
retirement, 101 , 113 -115
Revital, 136
Rhoads, Ellen, 102 , 317
rishi, 112 , 143 -145, 245 , 271 , 283 , 280 , 305 ;
angry, 150 -151, 153 -155, 167 , 221 , 237 , 281
ritual, 132 , 203 -204, 283
Robertson, A. E, 316
Rocca, W. A., 31l, 315 , 318
Roland, Alan, 317
Ross, Arleen, 102 , 317
Rostan, Leon, 64 -65, 314
Rowland, Richard, 65 , 314
Roy, Manisha, 297 , 325
Roy Chowdhury, Salil K., 311
Rubin, Gayle, 320
rupture, xvii , 288
S
sadhu, 237 , 278 , 282
Saharay, H. K., 311
sahi/sahi nahin , 10 -11, 175 , 177 , 179 , 190 , 226 , 235 -241, 249 , 252 , 254 , 275 , 301
Sahlins, Marshall, xvi , 309
Saletore, R. N., 324
Salpêtrière, 62 -65, 72 , 85
sampling, xvi , 19 , 35
samsara, 143 -144
samskara : impression, 130 , 143 -145;
rite, 113 , 179
San Francisco Chronicle , 86
sanitation, 22
Sanjay, 135 -138, 140
Sankar, Andrea, 184 , 315 , 321
Sannipat , 210
Sannyasa /sannyasi (renunciation/renouncer), 40 -42, 115 , 133 , 142 -143, 145 -146, 153 , 153 -155, 169 -170, 172 , 185 , 196 -197, 199 , 202 -203, 213 , 236 -237, 250 -252, 264 , 270 -271, 277 -279, 283 -284, 302 , 304
-Sarasvati, Dayananda, 113
Saraswathi, T S., 321
Saraswati, 307 -308
Saraswati, Baidyanath, 168 , 273 , 277 -278, 320 , 324
Sarkar, Sumit, 119 -120, 318
Sarngadhara samhita , 131 , 319
sathiyana. See sixtyishness
sattar-bahattar , 157 , 276
"sattha ta pattha ," 134 , 138 , 157 -159, 165 -167, 211 , 239 , 242 , 275
sattva , 130
Saxena, D. N., 316
Saxena, M. S., 234 -235, 321
schema, 6
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, xxiii , 50 , 184 , 268 , 309 , 321 , 323 -324
schizophrenia, 215
Schoenberg, B. S., 315 , 318
Schweitzer, Albert, 312
scientia senilis , 302
Scot, Reginald, 72 -74, 85 , 315
Searl-Chatterjee, 322
Secchan, and family, 213 , 228 , 234 , 239 , 253
second childhood, 24 , 76 , 124 -125, 168 , 201 , 274 -275
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 320
self, 212 , 236 , 251 ;
ageless, 185 , 212 ;
aging, 211 ;
Indian/Western, 32 , 161 , 163 -164, 178 ;
loss of, 7 , 50 -51, 53 -60, 124 , 126 ;
and memory, 126 -127;
relational/transactional, 3 , 105 , 155 , 177 -178, 180 , 292 ;
subjugation of, 251
semantic network, 133 , 201 , 217 , 276
semen, 133 , 217 , 233 ; loss, 131 -132, 216 -217, 233
semiotic frottage, 7
Sen, Amartya, 14 , 99 , 310 , 317
senility, 17 , 19 -20, 27 , 38 , 41 , 64 , 87 , 127 , 167 , 199 -200, 207 , 276 -277, 292 , 296 ;
versus Alzheimer's, 5 , 17 , 32 , 61 ;
definition of, xv -xvii, 24 -26, 32 -34;
history of, 47 -48, 71 -84;
as trope of imperial appraisal, 22 -23
senior citizen, 88 , 92 , 302
Sermion, 217
Seva , 115 , 117 , 120 , 170 , 173 -174, 176 , 180 , 182 , 185 , 191 , 194 , 201 , 209 -211, 220 , 236 , 238 , 241 -243, 245 , 252 , 254 -255, 268 , 273 , 275 -276, 283 , 300 , 304
See also anxiety, Seva
Seva Lal, and family, 213 , 228 , 253
Shah, A. M., 317
Shangri-La, 222
Shani, 166 , 309
Shankar the boatman, 9 -10, 36 , 307 -308
Shankara, 143
Sharma, J. P., 87 , 114
Sharma, M. L., 316
Sharma, Om Prakash, 205
Sharma, V. K., 234 -235, 321
Sharma family, 24 , 35 , 37 , 42 , 292 -193, 281
shanti, 194 -198, 213 , 215 , 238 -241, 251 -252, 254
Shiva, 39 , 155 , 166 , 223 , 228 , 234 , 266
shock, 198 , 209 , 214 -216
Shravan Kumar, 93 , 166 , 168 -171, 180 , 211
Shweder, Richard A., 178 , 317 , 321
Sicherman, Barbara, 314
siddhi, 155 , 285 -286
sign, 288 -289
silence, 124 , 170 , 175 -176, 181 , 202 , 237 , 241 , 272 , 279 , 283 , 296
Simchowicz, Teofil, 314
Singh, Dr. (Varanasi psychiatrist), 133 -134
Singh, Mahinder, 199 -200, 321
Singh, R. H., 111 -112
Singh, Virendra, 250
Singh, Yogendra, 317
Sinha, J. N. E, 316 , 321
Sinha, Surajit, 277 -278, 324
Siranji Devi, and family, 137 -138, 140 , 170 , 213 , 220 , 246 -249, 254 -255, 270
sixtyishness (sathiyana ), 10 , 33 , 156 -158, 165 -166, 170 , 175 , 194 , 197 -198, 207 , 211 , 239 , 276 , 308
Smith, John, 66 , 314
smrti : literature, 142 -143, 146 , 204 ;
memory, 129 -131
Sobti, Krishna, 153 , 160 -161, 171 , 320
social drama, 233
sociology of India, 22
softening, 139 -140, 164 , 187 , 200 -201, 292 ;
cerebral, 20 -23, 64 -66, 69 , 140 ;
tropical, 21 -23, 33 , 49 , 64 -65
Somadeva, 112 , 318 , 319
son, 68 , 117 -119, 121 , 123 , 133 -135, 137 , 141 , 144 , 150 , 159 -175, 177 , 179 , 188 , 192 , 194 , 196 , 198 , 201 -203, 205 , 207 , 209 -210, 214 , 228 ,237-249, 251 -255, 263 , 275 - 277 , 285 , 297 , 303
Sontag, Susan, 318
Soodan, K. S., 89 -91, 316
Soumerai, Stephen B., 322
South Asian Studies, 42
South India, 216
Sprenger, James, 315
Srikanta Murthy, K. R., 319
Srivastava, R. S., 316
sruti , 142 -143, 146 , 204
state, 81 , 88 , 91 -92, 98 -99, 106 , 253 , 281
status, 102
Stigma, 20 , 33 , 46 , 58 , 83 , 86 , 177 , 300
Stearns, Peter, 101 , 317
Stevens, Preston S., 318
Strathern, Marilyn, xvii , 309
structuralism, 154 -155, 171 , 230 -231
subaltern, 105 -106, 119 ;
phyaiology, 76 , 83
subjectivity, 37 , 53 -60, 97 , 164 , 179
sublime, genrontological, 287
Subrahmanium, C., 92 , 316
Subramaniam, Kamala, 153 , 317
substitution, 171 , 210
suffering, 177 , 233 , 269 , 301 , 303
Sulkava, R., 311
Sun Cities, 81 , 114
superannuation, 41 , 68 , 110 -113, 176 , 247 , 278 -281 284 -286
Sushruta, 129
Susruta Samhita , 110 , 129 -130, 245 , 319 , 323
suture, 288
Svoboda, Robert E., 324
symbolic, 179 , 288 ;
Hegelian, 22
system, bodily, 22
T
tabloids, 47 -53, 304
tamasha, 15 -16, 18 , 37
Tambe tamily, 10 , 202 -206, 282
Tambiah, Stanley, 281 , 324
Tapas, 155
Tapeshwara, and family, 243
Tarunachandra, 145
Taussig, Michael, 270 , 324
technobiological artifact, 84
technology, symbolic use of, 20 , 32
television, 128 , 302
tension, 194 -195, 207 -208, 233
testamentary capacity, 24 -25
Thakur, 226 -228, 232 , 236 , 252 -253
Tharu, Susie, 105 , 317
theodicy, 53 , 63 , 242 , 269 , 301
Thewlis, Malford, 69 , 314
thick analysis, xvi
Thirty-Plus, 136 , 220
36-Hour Day The , 54 -55, 58
Thomas, Eugene, 205
"303" (tonic), 135
Tiffany, William J., 314
Tikri village, 145
time, 168 , 170 , 270 , 285 -286, 288 -289, 293 ;
collapse of, 58 -59;
as violence, 32 , 54
Times of India , 174 , 195 , 199 , 266
tirtha , 39 , 115
Tiwari the lawyer, 24 -25
tonic, 131 -138, 145 , 168 , 198 , 217 -228, 220 , 240 , 246 -247
total institution, 116 , 296
totality, 32 , 115 , 220 , 154 , 231 , 288 -289
totalization, 7 , 79 , 89
touristic, 9 , 14 , 39 , 295 -293, 296
Townsend, Peter, 100 , 317
toxemia, 23 , 76
transactional, 22 , 137 , 144 , 170 , 220 , 231 -233, 244 -245, 270 , 281 ;
deficit, 230 , 247 , 302 ;
flow, 275 ;
refusal, 201 , 214 , 266 , 269.
See also gift; self, relational/transactional
transmigration, 213
Trawick, Margaret, 154 , 320
"trope of ambiguity," 71
tropical medicine, 51 -55
Turner, Victor, 16 , 56 , 284 , 310 , 313 , 321
Tytler, Jadgish, 174
U
Uberoi, J. P. S., 49 , 355
Unani, 40
uncanny, 268 -270
uncle, 136 , 175 , 206 , 212 , 243 , 271 ;
tau , 157 -158,m 203
undernutrition, 245
United Nations, 38 , 566
United States, 65 , 109 -111, 200 , 228 , 292 , 294 -595, 303 -305;
fieldwork, 6 , 48 -50, 53 -61, 70 , 117 ;
history of old age in, 62 -64, 69 , 73 -74, 76 -79, 81 -84, 101 ;
policy debate in, 71 , 94 ;
West of, 53 , 58 -60, 304
University of Kentucky study, 85
unmatching, 171 , 173 , 175 , 177 , 212
Untouchable, 204 , 237.
See also Chamar
urbanization, 17 , 89
Uttar Pradesh, 10 , 35 , 581-282
utopia, gerontological, 91 , 97
V
Vaishya, 556
vanaprastha (forest-dwelling stage), 113 -115, 196 , 202 -203, 205 , 214 , 237 , 251 , 275 , 277 .
See also ashram, Vanaprastha
Van der Veen, Klaas W., 317
Varanasi (Banaras, Benares, Kashi), 1 -4, 9 , 14 , 24 , 31 , 34 -37, 39 -43, 105 , 115 , 121 , 127 -129, 131 , 133 -139, 150 , 154 -155, 159 -160, 166 -168, 174 , 179 , 186 , 188 -200, 203 -206, 208 -211, 216 -217, 222 -258, 236 - 237 , 245 , 252 , 254 , 258 -260, 263 -268, 270 -573, 277 -278, 282 , 284 -285, 291 -293, 295 , 297 , 300, 302 -304, 307 -308, 320 , 313 , 320 , 322
Varuna, 223 , 257 -258
vasana , 143
Vasant College, 206 , 264 , 303
vasodilator, 69 , 80 , 518
Vatuk, Sylvia, 124 -125, 140 , 170 , 175 -176, 181 , 184 , 200 , 240 , 248 , 312 , 318 , 320 -321
vayu , 153 , 181 , 245
Vedanta, 142 -143
Vedas, 135 , 142 -143, 187 -188, 203 , 206 , 226 , 245
Venkoba Rao, A. K., 216 , 218 , 311 -312, 321
victimhood, 33 , 47 , 50 , 53 -54, 56 , 59 , 61 , 69 ;
"other victim," 51 , 53 -54, 56 , 69 , 201 , 294 ,296, 304
vidanga kalpa , 129 , 132
Vijaya Kumar, S., 316
Vikramacarita , 146 , 319
Vinayashila, 112 , 145 , 219 , 288
violence, 54 , 568
Vipat, and family, 237 -242
Vishwanath, and family, 241 -243, 323
Visvanathan, Shiv, 310
Vivekananda, Swami, 93
voice, xv , 47 , 54 , 58 -59, 73 -74, 78 , 154 , 149 -251, 153 -158, 170 , 174 -181, 183 , 288 , 194 , 205 , 210 , 221 , 223 , 230 , 237 -238, 240 -241, 244 -246, 548-550, 255 , 265 , 267 -269, 271 -279, 282 -283, 585, 293 , 300
W
Wadia, Noshir H., 311 -312
Walford, Roy, 110 -112, 129 , 153 , 317
Walker, Barbara, 315
wandering, 51 -53, 61 , 202 , 210 , 303
Warthin, Aldred, 68 , 78 , 314
weakener/weakened, 232 , 236 , 243 , 252 , 555
weakness (kamzor&!: ), 37 , 78 , 130 , 134 -135, 138 , 161 , 182 , 190 , 194 , 198 , 207 , 213 , 217 , 220 , 223 , 227 -238, 240 , 243 -244, 247 , 249 , 251 -252, 255 , 269 , 300 -302, 322 ;
of brain/mind (dimag ), 10 , 37 , 147 , 196 , 200 , 505, 210 , 212 , 216 , 233 -235, 238 -239, 241 , 244 , 248 ;
of hands and feet (hath pair ), 124 -125, 176 , 212 , 245 ;
of memory, 215
Weber, Max, 281
Weiner, Dora, 64 -65, 314
welfare, 4 , 48 , 116 -117, 178
West, 8 -9, 17 , 19 , 37 -38, 93 , 98 , 104 -106, 129 , 135 , 178 , 184 , 190 , 253 , 241 , 285 , 305
Westernization, 17 , 89
Weyer, Johannes, 72 -74, 78 , 315
White, David, 266 , 324
widow, 40 , 77 -79, 81 , 113 -114, 116 -120, 185 , 205 -208, 239 -240, 243 , 264 -268, 270 , 272 -274, 278 , 283 ;
kasivasi , 206 , 250 -252, 264 -265, 273 , 275 , 277
Wig, N. N., 311
wisdom, 123 , 212
witchcraft, 22 , 72 -74, 78 -79, 81 , 85 -86, 258 -261, 265 , 268 -274, 283.
See also dain ; curail
Wolfenstein, Martha, 315
Women's Coordinating Council (WCC), 116 -118
Woodward, Kathleen, 321
World Assembly on Aging, 93 -95, 99 , 184 , 316
World Health Organization (WHO), 28
World Parliament of Religions, 93
"worldly ascetic," 236
world system, 48 , 100 , 219
Y
Yadav, Laloo Prasad, 283
Yayati, 166 -170, 179
Yesavage, J. A., 322
Yogavasistha , 144
yogi/yoga, 110 , 113 , 142 , 145 , 185 , 236 , 285
Young, Allan, 301 , 325
Z
Zagreb, 7 , 15 -19, 31 -33, 38 , 48 , 87 , 199 , 305 , 310
Zandu, 134 , 137 , 159
Zimmermann, Francis, 245 , 317 -319, 323
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