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Write short note: New trends in the types and forms of family in contemporary India.

  • UPSC 2008
  • Systems of Kinship

Irawati Karve defined the traditional Indian joint family by common residence, common kitchen, common property, common worship and kinship ties. The contemporary trend is not simple nuclearisation but a diversification of household types (who lives together) and family forms (the basis of the union), with obligations to kin largely intact.

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