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Analyze household dimensions of family in India.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Systems of Kinship in India

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Almost every claim about the Indian family standing or collapsing turns on which unit was actually counted. The organising insight of the Indian literature is that jointness is a process, not a state: a household moves into and out of it over a lifetime. Analysed, the household dimension has four components — the unit, its…

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  • Component one: what a household is, and what it is not
  • Component two: composition — A. M. Shah's simple and complex households
  • Component three: the cycle — why a snapshot proves nothing
  • Component four: functional content — I. P. Desai's Mahuva
  • The current evidence
  • Conclusion
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