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Abstract

Abstract Family is one of the three key social institutions in Indian society. The Indian joint family is an ideal type associated with an elite minority. While, historically, joint and nuclear families have coexisted in India, even in globalized India, where households might be autonomous, family obligations continue to unfold in an extended context across households. Women's increased labor force participation in globalized India is shifting gender relations in families, although their paid labor has not substantially changed household labor arrangements. The dialogue between traditional and contemporary family and gender practices manifests in increasing attentiveness to family violence, of which dowry‐related violence dominates legal and social discourse. Indian families are simultaneous sites of support and inequity.