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Write short notes with a sociological perspective on the following in about 150 words : Types of kinship systems in India.

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  • Systems of Kinship in India

India has no single kinship system. It has a set of systems that differ by the rule of descent, the rule of residence, the rule of marriage and the terminology that records them, and these vary regionally in a patterned way first mapped by Irawati Karve in Kinship Organisation in India (1953).

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  • Classification by organising principle
  • Karve's four zones
  • The types are not static
  • Conclusion

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