| ID | 364070 |
| Title Proper | Framing custom, Directing practices: authority, property and matriliny under Colonial Law in nineteenth century Malabar |
| Other Title Information | Centre for Development Studies, Tiruvananthapuram. Working Paper 338, October 2002 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kodoth, Praveena |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Colonial judges and jurists intepreted matrilineal customs in terms of a theory of matrilineal law, which they shaped in the process of interpretation, rather than on the basis of existing practices. This paper analyses critically the process of interpretation of customs or what is referred to as the legal discourse on matriliny, from the standpoint of its own assumptions, i.e., the ideas and theory that shaped an governed it. |
| `In' analytical Note | In Devika, J.: Family Planning as 'Liberation': the ambiguities of 'emancipation from biology' in Keralam. [Centre for Development Studies, Tiruvananthapuram. Working Paper 335, July 2002] Tiruvananthapuram. Centre for Development Studies, 2002. |
| Key Words | Property Rights ; Matriliny ; Colonial Law |