Summary of the Book
This analysis of Indian society is themost comprehensive study that has been done in recent times. It brings together the results of modern social research to reveal the regular patterns that underlie social relations throughout the contry; it also outlines some of the principal social and regional variations. Professor Mandelbaum views social relations in India as systems and parts of systems and shows that Indian society has not been static or stagnent, as is often asserted, but has continually been adapted, mainly on the basis of certain deep-lying psychological and social thems.
