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Discuss the changing dimensions of family structure in urban India.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Visions of Social Change in India

The urban Indian family has changed along several axes at once, and they do not all point one way. A. M. Shah's The Household Dimension of the Family in India (1973) disciplines the discussion: the household is a residential and commensal unit an enumerator can count, while the family is a kinship unit spanning several…

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  • Size and composition
  • Nuclearisation and the functional joint family
  • Authority and the conjugal bond
  • Women's work, ageing and emergent forms
  • Conclusion

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