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Define patriarchy. Does it have bearings on women’s entitlement in Indian family system? Explain.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Systems of Kinship in India

In the Indian family, patriarchy is most precisely defined through kinship rather than attitude: a system in which descent, residence and authority all run through men — patriliny, patrilocality and patripotestality — so that a woman belongs fully to neither the natal nor the conjugal household. Leela Dube showed this is constitutive, not incidental: the…

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  • What "entitlement" means technically
  • Property: the right that is granted and surrendered
  • Food, health and the body
  • Residence, maintenance and widowhood
  • Voice, mobility and earnings
  • Why the law under-delivers
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