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Discuss the consequences of Across Region marriage on kinship system in modern Indian society.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Systems of Kinship

Across-region marriages are unions in which brides move long distances, usually from poorer eastern and north-eastern states (Assam, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar) to Haryana, Punjab, western Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The term comes from Ravinder Kaur ("Across-Region Marriages: Poverty, Female Migration and the Sex Ratio", EPW, 2004). The unions breach the classic North Indian…

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