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Show CHAPTER XIII SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE INDIANS^ ( 1500- 1900) ' THE most significant factor in Indian sociology is undoubtedly the clan. This is a kinship group in which the degree of relationship between the members is not regarded. The fact of kinship is, however, whether traceable or not, always assumed and is indispensable for the clan conception. Discussion as to the origin of the clan system has been active for many years and shows no sign of abating: a common view is that the clan is an outgrowth of the family; but there are many farts to support tfhe contention that the family is a new formation within the clan. Though actual kinship between members of the same clan need not necessarily be traceable, there must be some mode of expressing the idea of kinship - whirh flnminntrs and Hntln thr prmip together, an^ t. hft UR11fl1 rnpdft fa + hg niici. nm nr inatifiifinn nf totemism. A totem is a class of objects, "°" Ql1y animals JIT plants with whirh an individual rggarrf? himself as standing in a special relation. 1 This 1 Fraser, in Encyclopedia Britannica, art.," Totemism." 195 |
