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Discuss the impact of legislation and socioeconomic changes on marriage and family institutions. Are these institutions weakening in contemporary India?

  • UPSC 2007
  • Systems of Kinship in India

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K. M. Kapadia, in Marriage and Family in India (1955), read Hindu marriage as drifting from sacrament towards contract while caste endogamy held firm. That formulation still frames the question. Law and the economy have both worked on Indian marriage and family, but on different parts of them, and the result is restructuring rather than…

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  • Legislation: a century and a half of statutory reconstruction
  • Socio-economic change: the stronger solvent
  • Weakening, or restructuring?
  • Conclusion
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