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Pallavi Durua, who belongs to Odisha’s Koraput district, has been crowned as the India’s first “Tribal Queen” at the Adi Rani Kalinga Tribal Queen competition held at Utkal Mandap on June 26, 2018. Panchami Majhi of Titlagarh and Rashmirekha Hansdah of Mayurbhanj were declared as the first and second runners-up of the beauty pageant respectively. The trio will now feature in a short movie on tribal culture, to be produced by a Mumbai-based producer. Besides that, special awards were also given in seven different categories including tribal attire, photogenic face, best skin, best personality, the best presentation of ornaments, the best presentation of own culture and best in talent. The jury included a pool of guests from national and state-level, headed by Padma Shri Tulasi Munda, who is also the ambassador of the event. The prime objective of the event was to promote tribal art and culture.

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Type of family that is prevalent in India from historical times is joint family. It is an extended and undivided family. It consists of many generations living in the same household, all from the same relation.

In India though people live in different places, their duties towards the parents is obliged. In spite of the busy and costly way of living in present day word, social duties towards parents in their old age is fulfilled by the children.

A divorce is an act of legally ending marriage and relation among the married people. In present days there is an increase in the number of divorces. Some of the reasons behind increased divorces include urbanization, the impact of western culture and western education.

Type of family that is prevalent in India from historical times is Joint family. It is an extended and undivided family. It consists of many generations living in the same household, all from the same relation. Joint families help in increasing the bond due to presence of many people in the house and the people learn to share and live together.

Type of family that is prevalent in India from historical times is Joint family. It is an extended and undivided family. It consists of many generations living in the same household, all from the same relation. These are not seen a lot these days because of splitting. This splitting is because of reasons like urbanisation, impact of western culture and western education.

In olden days marriage was a sacred rite and people lived together in joint families. But these days the scene is changed, in which marriage has become a compromise with increase in number of divorces and kinship relations being limited. Main reason behind this is urbanisation, impact of western culture, busy lifestyle of people and western education.

Traditional occupation of India is agriculture. People living rural areas depend mostly on agriculture. It is the primary sector of Indian economy. Number of people depending on agriculture is highest in India. 

Present day scenario in India is the increase in nuclear family and reduction in joint families. Main reason behind this is urbanisation, impact of western culture and western education.