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Illustrate the importance of ‘Kanyadan’ and ‘Kulabadhu’ in changing institutions of marriage and family.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Systems of Kinship in India

These terms describe one transfer from both ends. Kanyadan is the act — the ritual gift of the virgin daughter making a North Indian Hindu marriage; kulabadhu the status it creates — the bride as daughter-in-law of a lineage, not wife of a man. Both encode the patrilineal, patrilocal, hypergamous logic of the north.

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  • Kanyadan: the gift that cannot be returned
  • Kulabadhu: the bride of the lineage
  • What is changing
  • Conclusion

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