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Discuss different forms of Kinship system in India.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The forms of Indian kinship are not a list but the output of a few generating principles — descent, alliance, residence and terminology — about whose priority Indian sociology has never agreed. Reading the map with Irawati Karve, Louis Dumont or T. N. Madan changes what counts as a form.

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  • The principles that generate the forms
  • Karve's zones against Dumont's alliance
  • Forms the Hindu-centric typology under-covers
  • Conclusion

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