Iravati Karve has made significant contribution to the study of Kinship in India.
State whether the following statement are true or false with reason.
Iravati Karve has made significant contribution to the study of Kinship in India.
1 Answers
This statement is True.
1. Iravati Karve has contributed in the field of Sociology as well as Anthropology. She wrote a book ‘Kinship Organization in India’ in which she describes major kinship systems in India.
2. Kinship is one of the concepts which is socially and culturally related with factors like family, caste and languages in India.
3. According to her, kinship system is based on the geographical and linguistic group differences. Thus, Iravati Karve has made significant contribution to the study of Kinship in India