Domestic Violence and Matrilineal Society Recapturing Khasi Theological-Ethical Values

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Khasi Society : An Overview ..1 The Khasi ......1 The Socio-Cultural Dimension ......2 Economic Profile ........7 Political Structure ..21 The religious Setup .....23 Khasi Society : Important agents of Transformation ...25 2. Conceptualizing and Contextualizing domestic Violence in India ......29 Defining and understanding Domestic Violence ........30 Types/Forms of Domestic Violence .......32 Factors Accelerating Domestic Violence ....35 Domestic Violence: A reality in India ....42 3. Analyzing domestic Violence in the Khasi Matrilineal Society ........49 Awareness of Domestic Violence .....54 Sources from where domestic Violence in Learnt About......55 Prevalence of Domestic Violence ......55 Women and domestic Violence ......57 Causes of Domestic Violence ....59 Divorce and Suicide: The Extreme steps ....68 Reporting Cases of Domestic Violence to the Police .......72 Law and Domestic Violence ..77 4. Kamai ia Ka Hok: Towards an Indigenous Theological - Ethical Response to Domestic Violence in the Khasi Matrilineal Society ...............87 Kamai ia ka Hok ........93 Kamai ia ka Hok .....97 Suggestions : The Road Ahead ....106