CONTENTS: Preface: How I Came to Study Well-being in India, 1. Introduction, Part I: UNIVERSALS: 2. Health and Wealth, 3. Connections to Others (and the Specialness of the the Self), 4. Meanings and Approaches, 5. Pleasure, Part II. VARIATIONS: 6. Age, Gender, Class, and Individual Lives and Choices, 7. Indian Ways of Living the Good Life, Part III. LESSONS: 8. What Have We Learned about Well-being?, 9. Toward a Better Sociology, 10. Living the Good Life, Acknoledgements, Postscript: Living Shaivite, Glossary, Index, About the Author.