Matriliny Transformed: Family, Law and Ideology in Twentieth Century Travancore
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Book Details
Author(s)
K Saradamoni
Publisher
SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
ISBN / ASIN
0761993436
ISBN-13
9780761993438
Sales Rank
#14,817,219
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
This book examines what matriliny, the right to live in and be maintained by their taravad (natal home, or matrilineal joint family), means to women, and how and why it changed in Travancore, an independent state till it was merged with Kerala in 1947.
