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Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University Unit 28: Family and Marriage in India: Regional Diversities

Unit 28: Family and Marriage in India: Notes

Regional Diversities

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
28.1 Northern Zone
28.2 Central Zone

28.3 South Zone
28.4 Clan Organisationa and Marriage Rules
28.5 Comparison of Kinship Systems of North and South India

28.6 Eastern Zone
28.7 Summary
28.8 Keywords
28.9 Review Questions
28.10 Further Readings

Objectives
After studying this unit, students will be able to:
• Know the regional inequalities in marriages in the socities of different regions.
• Know the regional inequlities in families in the socities of different regions.
• Know the regional inequlities in families and marriage of India.

Introduction
Marriage and family are the two sides of one social fact. The social fact is—the physical mental
emotional and social needs of man. Marriage and family have developed side by side. Both are
as old as culture, without family descent and culture cannot be preserved and without marriage,
family cannot be created.
The fruition of history is to know why in any society, a certain kind of marriage and family
developed, not in knowing how a structure self developed.
In the various states and regions of India, there is diversity in marriages and family functions
and rules; though in almost all the regions, the motive of marriage and family is the same. Mar-

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