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Comment on the changes in the household dimensions of family under modem economic reforms.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Liberalisation since 1991 is the clearest recent independent variable acting on the Indian household. It did not alter the kinship rules of who counts as family; it altered where members live, what the household produces and consumes, and who earns inside it. Reform reorganised the household without dissolving it, and in several respects made kinship…

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  • The household stretched across space
  • From a unit of production to a unit of consumption
  • Women's work and the outsourcing of care
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  • The counter-argument
  • Conclusion

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