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Does the institution of marriage continue to be sacred in Indian society? Comment.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Systems of Kinship

For Émile Durkheim, the sacred is what is set apart and protected by prohibitions. Classical Hindu marriage fitted this closely. It was one of the sixteen sanskaras, sealed by saptapadi before the sacred fire, indissoluble, and aimed at dharma, praja and rati. In K. M. Kapadia's account (Marriage and Family in India, 1955), it bound…

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  • Evidence that marriage remains sacred
  • Evidence of desacralisation
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