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Analyze household dimensions of family in India.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Systems of Kinship in India

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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