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‘Family jointness still continues unaffected by the differences of religion, caste, urbanization and occupation’. Elucidate

  • UPSC 1991
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The statement asserts two things: that jointness persists, and that it persists uniformly. The first is well supported by Indian evidence; the second is the claim's weak point. Jointness survives every one of these differences, but it survives differently in each — which is why "unaffected" must be qualified even while the substance of the…

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  • What the claim gets right
  • Why jointness persists
  • Where "unaffected" fails
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