TY - BOOK AU - Malik Amit TI - Indian society, Art & culture SN - 978-93-84866-32-7 U1 - 954 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Delhi. PB - Ancient Publishing house N1 - 1. Culture of India - An introduction 2. Conception of Dharma 3. Myths of Hindu Culture 4. Impact of Islam and western culture 5. Hinduism and social culture 6. Cultural perspectives 7. Indian art of painting 8. Family system and tradition 9. Cave in Indian culture 10. Traditional marriage customs 11. Indian art and Architecture 12. Indian caste system 13. Indian caste system 14. Child and widow marriage 15. Sanskrit Literature N2 - Myths are the stories regarding the happenings of particular things. In ancient times myth means a story, which was required to be considered seriously. But in modern times, myths have been regarded as a history of wrongs kind. Every phenomena is capable of mythical interpretation. when the study of myth of ancient people was taken by modern scholars, they were surprised to find the same elementary thoughts spread all over the world under different social and cultural conditions. They are the personification of community values ER -