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Do you think that family bondings are being affected by the changing kinship patterns in India? Comment.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Yes — but the effect is a change of basis, not a simple weakening. Indian kinship is shifting from ascribed structural obligation to negotiated affection, and family bonds are being remade on that new footing. The cost of the shift falls largely on the elderly.

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  • What has changed in kinship patterns
  • The case for weakening
  • The case for reconstitution
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