TN Madan Author

Aparna Rao received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. At the time of her death in 2005 she was associated with the Department of Anthropology, the University of Cologne (Germany). Among other publications, she is the author of Autonomy: Life Cycle, Gender and Status among Himalayan Pastoralists (1998).

T.N. Madan is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth (University of Delhi), Honorary Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (London) and Docteur Honoris Causa of the University of Paris, Nanterre. The large body of his published work includes Family and Kinship: A Study of the Pandits of Rural Kashmir (1965, 2007).