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LLB 3 years · Sem 3
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Duration 3 hours · Total marks 100 · 24 questions answered
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1. Answer in not more than two sentences, all 10 20 Marks
(1)What is meant by urbanization?[2]
Answer
Urbanisation is the movement of population from villages to towns and cities, and the change in the way people live that follows from it. India was about 17 per cent urban at the 1951 Census and about 31 per cent at the 2011 Census.
Its effect on the family is what the syllabus is testing. The joint family rested on shared land and a shared trade. A member who takes salaried work in a city takes his wife and children with him and leaves the rest behind, so the household becomes nuclear, and authority passes from the karta to the earning couple.
Three consequences the law has had to meet.
With sons living far away, the old duty to support parents stopped working, and Parliament answered with section 20 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 and then the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, which gives a parent a cheap remedy before a Maintenance Tribunal.
Migration made proof of marriage difficult, and in Seema v. Ashwani Kumar (2006) the Supreme Court directed every State to make registration of marriages compulsory.
City living produced households outside marriage, which the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 brought within the law through the words "relationship in the nature of marriage" in section 2(f), applied in D. Velusamy v. D. Patchaiammal (2010).
Do not confuse it with modernisation or westernisation. Urbanisation is a demographic fact, the movement of people; the other two describe changes in values and institutions.
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