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What factors are responsible for the instability of the Indian family? Will the family survive the present crisis in modem society?

  • UPSC 2001
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The two clauses need different answers. The strains on the Indian family are real and nameable. But "crisis" is not a neutral description: it smuggles in a functionalist assumption about what a stable family looks like, and the Indian evidence does not support it.

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  • The factors producing instability
  • Contesting the premise of "crisis"
  • Conclusion

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