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Clarify the distinction between ‘household’ and ‘family’ and evaluate whether joint families have completely disintegrated.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The question has two clauses and the second carries the weight. Once the first is settled the second follows almost mechanically: joint families have not completely disintegrated, because what the evidence records as their disappearance is the shrinking of a different unit altogether.

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  • Clarifying the two units
  • The case that joint families have disintegrated
  • The case that they persist
  • The verdict
  • Where the transformation bites
  • Conclusion

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