Question

State whether the following statement is True or False with reasons.

Iravati Karve has made significant contribution to the study of Kinship in India.

Options

• True

• False

Answer 1

This statement is true.

Reason: Iravati Karve’s book ‘Kinship Organisation in India’ (1953) offers a microanalysis of major kinship systems in India. It provides a comparative study of the Kinship organisation in different Indian regions. e.g. kinship terms in major Indian languages, their linguistic content, corresponding behaviour, marriage patterns, etc. Karve presented the kinship organisation based on geographical (Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern) and linguistic regions (Indo-European and Dravidian).