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Download or read book Kinship and Urbanization written by Sylvia Vatuk and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case study illustrating urbanization and social structure in two middle class neighbourhoods (composed of families who previously experienced rural migration) in the meerut urban area in North India - studies the social and cultural anthropology of the urbanizing migrant community, and concludes that, while there is a pattern of gradual social change, there is little support for the notion that the Indian family is disintegrating. Bibliography pp. 208 to 216, diagrams and statistical tables.