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Discuss the conceptual issues about lineage and descent in India. Give suitable illustrations.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Systems of Kinship in India

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Descent is the socially recognised rule assigning a person to a group by ancestry, transmitting membership, property, office and ritual duty. A lineage is a descent group whose members can demonstrate genealogical connection to a known ancestor, unlike a clan, where common ancestry is claimed but untraceable. Both concepts were built on African ethnography, and…

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  • The inherited apparatus
  • Does the African model travel?
  • Is gotra a clan or a category?
  • Is the Indian lineage corporate at all?
  • Matriliny and the definition problem
  • Descent, residence and property pulled apart
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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