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A Hindu joint family or Hindu undivided family is an extended family arrangement prevalent throughout the Indian subcontinent, particularly in India, consisting of many generations living in the same household, all bound by the common relationship.
The Narasinganavar family is a patriarchal Jain family of about 206 individuals who are residing together in the village of Lokur in the Dharwad district of Karnataka, India. All the individuals in the family share a common ancestry and this family is recognised as one of the largest undivided families in the world.
Historically, for generations South Asia had a prevailing tradition of the joint family system or undivided family. The joint family system is an extended family arrangement prevalent throughout the Indian subcontinent, particularly in India, consisting of many generations living in the same home, all bound by the common relationship. [14]
Hindu Joint Family not equal to Hindu Undivided Family [ edit ] The two concepts are legally distinct, in the sense that a HUF as a concept is used primarily for assessment of Income tax and Wealth tax while the Hindu Joint family is a concept defined under the personal laws (marital laws, succession, adoption etc) of Hindus in India.
The Indian activist and Hindu Mahasabha leader Vinayak Damodar Savarkar at the Hindu Mahasabha's 19th Annual Session in Ahmedabad in 1937 propounded the notion of an Akhand Bharat that "must remain one and indivisible" "from Kashmir to Rameswaram, from Sindh to Assam." He said that "all citizens who owe undivided loyalty and allegiance to the ...
On the other side of the globe, in a country like India, the society has assigned a common nomenclature for the head of a Hindu Undivided Family (HUF), a form of joint family. Head of such a family is called " Karta " (literal meaning ‘One who does’), and for all practical purposes, "Karta" was entrusted with responsibilities, among other ...
Hindu joint family; M. Marumakkathayam; T. Hindustani kinship terms This page was last edited on 12 May 2022, at 22:46 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The heir is a part of the mother's family. The inheritance of lineage identity in the form of gotra or in the form of ancestral house is through the mother. Marriage between people of same gotra is prohibited.