This Monographis the tenth of a series devoted to the description and analysis of life in shanti nagar, a village in the Union Territory of Delhi. Our research is based on holistic fieldwork carried out in 1957-59 and 1977-78. Previous monograph, all published in the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History., have dealt with social organization, economic and technology, rites of passage, fertility and sterilization, sickness and health, enculturation and education, politics and elections, ghosts in the context of a woman's psychomedical case history, and a functional and historical analysis of ghost beliefs based on case studies.