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Compare the North Indian Kinship System with the South Indian Kinship System.

  • UPSC 2017, 2015
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Irawati Karve's Kinship Organisation in India (1953) established that India has not one kinship system but regional ones, and that the sharpest break is between the Indo-Aryan north and the Dravidian south. The two are governed by opposite principles: the north maximises social distance between spouses, the south minimises it. Louis Dumont supplied the reason…

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