About the Book The book cultural heritage of India consists the values of Indian society. Vernashram system depicts the normative pattern of Indian society. In ancient period the aim of this mortal life was tightened in the golden rope of Purusharth, to reach the highest aim deliverance from all the mortal bondages. Hindu social Institutions as Marriage family, caste and Religion (Dharma) is desicribed in the sphere of sociological analysis. Except Hindu Social system, Muslim, Sikh and Christian people live in Indian society. In this reference Muslim Social Institutions, Sikh and Christian social institutions are described in this book.

The chapter scheme is arranged in such a way that a student of Sociology, History and culture and relatively all the social sciences pertaining social norms, which are vividly expressed here in this book. In this way this book will provide all the readers the complete and perfect knowledge about social life from early civilization to the modern times. Our Vedas, Puranas, Upnisheds and other religious books give inspiration to live in society in such a way which may lead to the highest goal of human life. Our cultural heritage always reminds us to make our life sublime.

About the Author Born at Sohaon, Ballia the eastern District of Unter Pradesh besides the Northern Bank of Gangs River. The day was Kartika Shukl Chaturdashi of Samvat 1999 (Nineteen Hundred Ninety Nine) in Reoti Nakshatra From primary education to Centar intermediate class studied in local school and college. For higher education I went Banaras where I got admitted at Kashi Vidya Pitha. I did Shashtri and then MA in sociology in 1965.

In 1966 I was admitted in Ph.D program after passing through written examination. After submission of my thesis in 1969 I was appointed in the Department of Sociology, Banaras Hindu University. Meanwhile I applied several places for the post of Lecturer under aegis of Gorakhpur University. I joined as lecturer Head Department of Sociology BRD BD PG Collage Asharm Barhaj, Deoria in August 1970. After 3 years I thought to change the place but could not due to the affectionate behaviour of people, Student and collage authorities, I then thought to remain their up to retirement.

Amid this period I attended about forty Seminars of UP sociological and All India Sociological Conferences. I got a chance to be participant in International Seminar on world peace and International Order at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur where delegates from Tokyo Moscow, Paris and USA, Harvard, Colombia and Pennsylvania. I also presented a paper on World Peace the entire world is on the threshold of destruction through Nuclear Weapons.

I then passed my time through teaching to the student of BA and MA classes. On 30th June 2007 I retired from my post and came Varanasi to leave here. This is a simple life sketch of my Career.

Introduction Our behaviour is of a large extent cultural, but it is not culture, first I have to talk about culture. At first Ewdard Tyler used this word Culture and defined in his book Primitive Culture. "That complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and other capabilities acquired by man as a member of society." Culture consists of abstract patterns of and for living and dying, Such abstract patterns are Cultural to the extent that they are learned directly or indirectly in social interaction and to the extent that they are part of the common orientation of two or more people.

Culture is abstract in the sense that it is manifest in behaviour and in the result of behaviour but neither the behaviour itself nor the tangible results, since culture must be inferred from observation of uniformities in behaviour, it in to some extent an imperfect or approximate, construct of the observes, for example a language is a part of culture and a scientific description of a language must certainly be based on observation of the way in which people actually speak, 'A language is equally true of a norm, a value, a role, a belief, a technique or any other item of cultural behaviour, then, is to a large extent of cultural, but it is not culture.

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