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Give some of the important studies relating to the structural changes in the Indian family system.

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  • Systems of Kinship in India

The empirical study of the Indian family reads as a sequence of corrections, each generation of fieldwork settling one question and opening another: whether law was changing marriage, how jointness should be measured, what unit was counted, and who inside the household was overlooked.

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  • The sacramental ideal under legal change
  • Measuring jointness: Desai and Kolenda
  • The conceptual correction: A. M. Shah
  • The urban and industrial studies
  • The feminist turn
  • What remains unsettled
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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