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Write short note : Changing pattern of Hindu joint family.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The Hindu joint family is not merely a large household. It is a legal and religious corporation — coparceners holding ancestral property by birth, bound by the obligation to offer pinda to common ancestors. Because it is constituted in law, law has reshaped it most sharply; sociological change runs alongside, and often behind, the statutory…

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