A methodology is proposed for estimating the gas and potential alpha energy concentrations (PAECs), and inhalation dose rates due to a mixed field of radon, thoron and their progeny present in the indoor atmosphere, using a radon-thoron discriminating dosemeter having three solid state nuclear track detectors (SSNTDs). The gas concentrations present in the vicinity of the dosemeter are directly measured through SSNTDs exposed in the 'cup mode'. The bare track density rates are related to the gas and the progeny concentrations by incorporating ventilation rate dependent spatial profiles for thoron gas. The ventilation rate is extracted as a real positive root of the governing equation and from this, the PAECs as well as the inhalation dose rates are estimated through the use of standard formulae. Error estimates on the dose rates have been carried out. Analyses of the field data from a sample survey of 35 houses situated in monazite bearing high background radiation areas of Kerala indicate that the methodology works successfully in a majority of the cases. Results for 22 cases which showed less than 100% statistical error are presented. These show median values of about 4.8 Bq.m-3 and 462 Bq.m-3 for radon and room averaged thoron concentrations, 0.5 mWL and 129 mWL for radon progeny and thoron progeny PAECs, and 1.21 µSv.h-1 for inhalation dose rate. Although a complete picture would emerge only at the end of the ongoing large scale survey, the sample survey already indicates that indoor thoron levels in the Kerala monazite area are the highest reported so far in the literature.