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The present paper has two goals. First, since rotating credit associations have not been described for India, except in the briefest of terms, we shall contribute in a small way to filling this void. Our data are limited. They derive from a month of field work in the city of Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), carried out in July 1962, and include two days in a village approximately twenty miles from the city. The focus of the field investigation was voluntary associations generally. Only a few interviews dealt with chit funds, as rotating credit associations are commonly called in India. The work in the village, limited as it had to be, was more than usually fruitful, because reports were available from earlier studies by other social scientists. The second aim of this paper is to consider the potentialities of such associations for socializing to modern business life. Before dealing with the latter problem, let us look at the three types of chit fund that we found. (The number is not necessarily exhaustive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information related to a research related to the relation between the employment status of mothers and the attitude of family towards it in Hyderabad, India. The data for the research were selected from a larger project designed to study role conflict of employed mothers in Hyderabad. For the research 40 pairs of married sisters from Hyderabad were gathered and related to employment status of the respondents. One of the major limitation of this research was the inability to advance towards a multivariate analysis of the data.

Reports on the Indian Paediatric Society and the Association of Paediatricians of India's meeting in Hyderabad. Attendance; Discussions on several pediatric syndrome; Establishment of the an Indian Academy of Paediatrics.