1. Dr. Iravati Karve has immense contributors in sociology and Anthropology. She has done pioneering work in her book “Kinship organisation in India” published in 1953. In this book, she presents a micro analysis of the major kinship systems in India.
2. The book gives us a list of kinship terms in major Indian languages, their linguistic content, corresponding behaviour and attitudes rules of descent and inheritance and patterns of marriage and family.
3. Kinship is primarily a socio-cultural concept and subsequently it is related to factors of family, caste and language in India.
4. She has presented kinship organisation on the basis of geographical regions – Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern, and linguistic regions like Indo-European and Dravidian kinship is a primarily socio-cultural concept and subsequently it is related to factors of family, caste and languages in India.
