Changing Pattern of Fictive (Miteri) Kinship in Rai Community of Nepal

Nepali society is structured by the caste system, where Miteri kinship is the most relevant in integration caste-ethnic relation. But Nepali society is changing in recent times by modernization process. The Miteri kinship is changing now. So this paper describes the changing pattern of Miteri kinship in the Rai community. The main objectives of this paper are to describe the changing pattern of the process of binding Miteri kinship, changing pattern in power, status, and prestige by the modernization process. Miteri Kinship has been changed, it is a kind of rational kinship, achievement-based kinship, and strategic exploitative relationship. The norms of negative reciprocity are arising in the Rai community, which tends change the Miteri kinship.