Yaksh ChaudharyAIR 6 · CSE 2021 · 144 wordsTheir whole copy
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Irawati Karve in her book "Kinship System in India" provides a diverse view of kinship system in India. She differentiated between North Indian kinship system from south Indian kinship system.
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North Indian Kinship system gives preference to endogamy, hypergamy, village exogamy and marriage in a strange family. While south Indian kinship system prefers cross cousin marriage where the family is already known. Dumont calls it isogamy.
The kinship terminology of South India is classificatory and symmetrical while that of North India is descriptive. North India uses different terminology for affinal and consanguinal kins while that's not the case in the south India.
North India follows negative rules of marriage while south India follows positive rules of marriage where preference for partner is clearly defined.
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Thus Irawati Karve differentiate south India and North India kinship system based on kinship terminology, marriage rules and partner preference.