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Excerpt from General Code of Tribal Custom in the Shahpur District of the Punjab, Vol. 15
Within the clan comes a still narrower group of agnates which may be called the family (kabila); also consisting Of agnates descended from a common male ancestor, not very remote, and much resembling the family group among European nations, except that the agnatic family group is much more clearly marked off from the relations through females only in the ideas of a Shahpur peasant than is 'the case in Europe; for instance, a sister's son, though recognised as a near relation, holds a very different position from a brother's son, who is one of the nearest agnates. Indeed'all through the system of relationship, relations through females are described by entirely different names from relations through males, and are classed entirely apart from them. The basis of the whole family and tribal system is agnatic relationship, the agnatic family having developed in the course of time into the agnatic clan, and that again into what is, in theory at least, the agnatic tribe.
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