The extended Indian family: A new cultural marker of modernity

Sumant Bhattacharya

This article explains how family structures in India moved from extended to nuclear families, and how the nuclear family is now giving way to more complex structures.

The extended Indian family: A new cultural marker of modernity

Sumant BhattacharyaGrey India

India, traditionally, has been one of the strongest bastions of the joint family. For a very large part of the past, the joint one was the dominant family unit for most of the population. A typical family in India consisted of an elderly couple, their brood of children and the grandchildren.

The reason constituted a mix of religious and socio-economic factors working in tandem.

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