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Duration 3 hours · Total marks 100 · 25 questions answered
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I Answer in not more than two sentences, all 10 20 Marks
(a)What is a patrilocal family?[2]
Answer
A patrilocal family is one in which the wife leaves her own family after marriage and goes to live with the husband's family, in or near his father's household. Residence is fixed by the husband's line.
The word describes where the couple lives, and nothing else. It is the common Indian pattern, and it is why a bride is spoken of as going to her sasural.
Its opposite is the matrilocal family, where the husband goes to live with the wife's family. The Nairs of Kerala and the Khasis of Meghalaya are the standard Indian examples. Where the couple sets up a household of its own, away from both families, writers call it neolocal, and city life has made that common.
Do not confuse residence with descent or with authority. A patrilineal family is one in which descent and property pass through the father, and a patriarchal family is one in which authority rests with the senior male. The three usually travel together, but they are three different tests, and an examiner who asks about one will not accept an answer about another.
The distinction has legal weight in maintenance and guardianship. A wife who leaves the matrimonial home does not lose her right to maintenance if she had a reason recognised by section 18(2) of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, and in Swaraj Garg v. K.M. Garg (1978) the Delhi High Court held that there is no law giving the husband the exclusive right to choose the matrimonial home.
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