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Irawati Karve

Irawati Karve is central to 15 previous-year questions, spanning 2010 to 2024 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.

15Questions
201024Years tested
I & IIPaper
4Syllabus topics

Concepts asked alongside Irawati Karve

What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.

kinship terminology 5cross-cousin marriage 4descent 3social security 3demographic transition 2kinship 2marriage alliance 2marriage rules 2regional kinship zones 2regional variation 2affinal kinshipaffinal tiesaffinity and consanguinityageingageing populationalliance and descentalliance as marriage relationschanging family

Where Irawati Karve appears in the syllabus

  • Systems of Kinship in India9
  • 9. Systems of Kinship3
  • Challenges of Social Transformation2
  • Population Dynamics1

Every question on Irawati Karve

Each links to a full breakdown — how to approach it, a model answer, and the examiner’s perspective.

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