West Bengal Family Structures, 1946-1966: An Example of Viability of Joint Family |
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affinal relations age-group agricultural commoner Algarah and/or Bengal family structures Berhampore brothers Calcutta cent Chapter characteristics Coefficients of Variation collateral relatives commensal kingroups conjugal considering family-units Contai context coresident and commensal Darjeeling denote Estimated Percentage s.e. examine extended families Extended Total Sample family members family of orientation family of procreation family organization family structure categories father field investigators gentry or illiterate head's heads Hindu or Muslim Howrah illiterate commoner India Indian Statistical Institute inference intra-family relations kinship relations Mukherjee non-agricultural literate gentry non-manual Nuclear Extended nuclear structures number of families parental patrilineal joint families Percentage to Total progeny reference relative incidence relevant represent respect root couple rural sector Schedule 1.0 sector of West sibling relations sibling(s Siliguri social group social stratification socially inferior Hindu stratum structures in West time-points total number Total s.e. towns unmarried urban sector variations in family villages West Bengal family West Bengal society