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Trace the impact of urbanisation on the Hindu family.

  • UPSC 1984
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Louis Wirth's "Urbanism as a Way of Life" (1938) predicted that size, density and heterogeneity would replace kinship with secondary association, and William J. Goode's World Revolution and Family Patterns (1963) generalised this into a convergence towards the conjugal family. Indian evidence has repeatedly falsified the simple version. Urbanisation is not one force but a…

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  • What urbanisation did not do
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