...Investors and developers argued that a certain kind of person – one who, unlike the majority of Indians, earns well, lives in a nuclear family, and has a spouse who works – guaranteed future demand for real estate and thus price appreciation. The resulting “end-user” or “genuine resident” eerily...

... conservative among them, felt that this was a truncation of the "true" family. But both sides understood their age as driving toward a centering on the nuclear family. However, the dynastic imagination persisted, in time emerging as a critical stance by which the nuclear family’s conservatism and temporal...

...In the wake of vast social and economic changes, the nuclear family has lost its dominance, both as an ideal and in practice. Some welcome this shift, while others see civilization itself in peril—but few move beyond ideology to develop a nuanced understanding of how families function in society...