Essay on india is our family
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Family in India has remained a vital institution and a foremost primary group because it is the sheet-anchor of the patriarchal authority on the one hand, and a protector and defender of individual member’s (including woman) right to property, on the other.
Despite several wide-ranging changes in Indian society, because of synthesis between collectivism and individualism, the Hindu family continues to be joint, partly structurally and mainly functionally; and it has not disintegrated into individual families like the western countries.
Several studies on family have revealed that industrialisation, urbanisation, education and migration have not necessarily resulted into nuclearisation of family in India. A nuclear family in India is not simply a conjugal family.
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A real change in family must refer to changed pattern of kinship relations, obligations of members towards each other, individualisation, etc. In other words, not only change is seen in the composition or structure of family, but also its functions must change. The word ‘family’ is used in several different ways. A.M. Shah (1988) outlines at least four interrelated social situations of family life in India.