Srushti Jayant DeshmukhAIR 5 · CSE 2018 · 222 wordsTheir whole copy
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The kinship relations that bond affinal and consanguine relatives of family have been analysed regionally by Iravati Karve.
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(i) NORTH INDIAN KINSHIP
→ Its predominantly patrilineal and → Village exogamy and caste endogamy is practiced → Sapinda and Gotra exogamy, is prevelant and marriage from fathers' & mothers' side is not allowed upto 7 & 5 generations → Preferential marriage is not practiced & new kin relations are forged.
→ Patrilocal families are dominant and new bride is completely new for the village as well. → This has percolated patriarchal structures and wide diffrence between treatment of daughters and the bride who has to 'veil' before elders.
(e) SOUTH INDIAN KINSHIP : → Though patrilineal is also found, matrilineal relations are found in Nair, Moplah etc → Matrilocal residence in form of Tharwad - where mother, daughters, their children, brothers live and husbands are casual visitors. → Preferential Marriages are prevelant. Cross cousin marriage between son and fathers' sister daughter or mother's brother's daughter
is observed.
→ Due to close kin relations, the kin names are generally repetitive for references.
→ Since, daughter does not go to another home, after marriage, her condition remains more or less the same.
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Hence, in between North and South Indian kinship a wide deffrence exists which is an indicator of Indian cultural diversity and multiplural values.