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Compare and contrast Types of kinship systems in North India and South India.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>According to Murdock, “It is a structured system of relationship in which individuals are bound to one another by complex interlocking and ramifying ties”. Radcliffe-Brown says that Kinship system is a part of social structure and insists upon the study of kinship as a field of rights and obligations.<\/p>\n

Types of kinship systems\u00a0<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Primary kins:<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Every individual who belong to a nuclear family finds his primary kins within the family.<\/p>\n

Secondary kins:<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Outside the nuclear family the individual can have 33 types of secondary relatives. For example mother’s brother, brother’s wife, sister’s husband, father’s brother.<\/p>\n

Tertiary kins:<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Tertiary kins refer to the secondary kins of our primary kins. For example wife’s brother’s son, sister’s husband’s brother and so on. There are 151 types of tertiary kins<\/p>\n

Kinship in North and South India<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

North Indian kinship systems\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThis kinship system is present in Hindi speaking belt and also in areas where Aryan culture\u00a0influence is substantive. It includes West Bengal, Orissa and Bihar. In case of North India kinship system,\u00a0the terminology used for father’s brother is not used for mother’s brother, therefore Patrikins are\u00a0distinguished from Matrikins<\/strong>. Within Patrilineal system father’s brother are distinguished from father’s\u00a0sister therefore differential terminologies are used. Father’s brothers are also distinguished in terms of age\u00a0and so deferential respect is attribute to them.<\/p>\n

In North India kinship systems, large body\u00a0of people are excluded from alliance relationship. One is not supposed to receive a woman from a group to\u00a0which women is offered within 5 to 7 generations. In addition to that one cannot receive women from his\u00a0mother\u2019s group or mother’s mother group, father\u2019s mother group and from within his own village. Hence\u00a0exogamy is quite exhaustive and marriage involves not intra-family ties but inter-village ties.<\/strong> Residential\u00a0system is very Virilocal (bride lives with husband’s father\u2019s group) type and marriage involves a series of\u00a0presentational obligations.
\nIn North Indian kinship father \u2013 son relationship precedes over husband \u2013 wife relationship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Indian kinship systems\u00a0<\/strong>
\nIn southern India kinship systems, no\u00a0distinction is made between patrilineal or matrilineal, therefore father’s brother is equated with mother’s\u00a0sister’s husband and both their children being parallel cousins so no marriage is allowed between them. To\u00a0its contrast father’s sister’s group is equated with mother’s brother’s group, hence mother’s brother is\u00a0equivalent to father’s sister’s husband.<\/p>\n

In South India father is equated with elder brother, mother is equated with elder sister<\/strong>,\u00a0daughter is equated with younger sister and son is equated with younger brother and\u00a0subsequently\/correspondingly terminologies are adjusted. These terminologies speak about love for younger,\u00a0respect for elders cutting across generational principles.<\/p>\n

In case of South India cross cousin\u2019s marriage take place and so exogamy is not exhaustive like\u00a0in North India<\/strong>. The relationship between husband and wife is not subdued to father \u2013 son relationship as in\u00a0case of North India. Hostility of relationship between the in laws driven by suspicion is also weak in South\u00a0India.<\/p>\n

Some more facts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Levirate practiced in north INDIA only.<\/p>\n

Practice of polyandry by various tribes in north India such as Todas etc.<\/p>\n

Similarities <\/strong><\/p>\n