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Write short note : Regional Variation in Kinship System

  • UPSC 1988
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Irawati Karve's Kinship Organisation in India (1953) established the finding that still organises this topic: India has no single kinship system. Reading terminology and marriage rules as evidence of structure, she mapped four zones whose governing rules run in opposite directions.

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  • The four zones and their defining rules
  • Why the variation exists
  • Critique
  • The zones under pressure now
  • Conclusion

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