ABSTRACT
This chapter offers some additional comments on certain issues of modernization and kin network. The modern education provided by the British government and the Christian missionaries was undoubtedly the most important channel through which Western ideas flowed into India. The intellectual elite became leaders of the national socio-economic, religious and political reform movements and through them the modern ideas of individual liberty, equality and nationalism filtered into the different strata of Indian society. The Industrial Revolution had its impact on the Indian society. New factories, mills and the industrial cities gradually came into existence. Industrialization although slow during the British period gave a death blow to the traditional Indian handicrafts and village industries Agriculture was commercialized to meet the needs of modern industries. The intergenerational and intragenerational occupational mobility which has been on the increase for the last three decades does not facilitate joint economic enterprise among kin.
