UPSC: CENTRAL ASSITANT COMMANDANT PART-1
The family, after all, is the bedrock of the Indian social unit. We Indians ae as self-seeking as anyone else, but we are not individualists in the Western mode; India is not hospitable terrain for 'atomic man' since India is anything done in India we require pher people - allies who see heir interests as ours. Such allies are most readily found within the cocoon of a family unit, which generates our most vital support, practical , material and psychological, as well as the most important of our social duties and obligations.
But we define family more Indian than the rest of the workd. We are after, the only country in the world where even the taxman recognizes the extended kintu family spanning several generations and several branches of the family tree, living together in an arrangement legally known as the 'Hindu Undivided Family's. India is not welfare state in hat the government provides little to ou unfortunates. but it is a welfare society in which people constantly help each other out. Provided they feel a connection that justifies that their help/.
Belonging to the family carries with it a complex web of entitlements and abd obligations, not less monetary. our culture, with some exceptions , treats family income as commonly accessible, family expenditure as commonly undertaken, family meals as meant to be shared.
Despite the socialist rhetoric of our political class since independence, we are a society unfit for socialism. Very few Indians have a broader sense of community the that circumscribed by ties of blood. caste affiliation or village. We take care of those we consider near and dear and remain largely indifferent to the rest.
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
(A) What is the importance of family as an Indian social unit?
(B) What do you by "'Hinduy Undivided family?
(C) Why is it better to define India as a 'Welfare Society'?
(D) Why is India not a fertile ground for socialism?
(E) Make sentences with the following words used in the passage to Bing out their meaning:
(I) bedrock
(ii) terain
(iii) complex
(iv ) rhetoric
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