Study based on the village Kottaipatty in Tamil Nadu, India.

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The traditional South Indian village pictures the entire universe as an entity in which all living things and human beings play a necessary and effective role.

Owning Land, Being Women enquires into the processes that establish inheritance as a unique form of property relation in law and society. It focuses on India, e

Papers presented at a national seminar held at Allahabad in 2004.