China and Megalaya are not far away but the right of women to hold the property is being interpreted wrongly. In Kerala how about Marumakkal thayam? Holding property at one place and living in another place is quite common for both the sex. So blaming the women is an unwanted task. KR IRS 12 8 23
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rangarajan T.N.C. <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 at 07:23 Subject: Fw: rights of married out daughter To: In the tea-growing hills of southern China, bonds of blood make villages strong. Most residents of Lüchuwu, a village in the pine-clad highlands of Fujian province, share just two surnames between them. The clout of the Su family, in particular, is shown by a white-walled, red-pillared shrine bearing the inscription: “Su Clan Ancestral Hall”. Yet if family ties bind places like Lüchuwu, those bonds are also conditional. A woman may be born and brought up in a village that her ancestors built. But if she marries a man from elsewhere, custom deems her lost to her birth family and home village, as a *waijianü*, or “married-out daughter”. That harsh tradition has caused individual tales of heartache for centuries. To cite a cruel old saying, a married-out daughter was deemed as worthless as “thrown-away water”. But today, the collective financial losses suffered by China’s married-out women are growing. More rural land is rented out to agricultural companies or other businesses. Other land attracts compensation payments when local officials build on it. Since the 1990s China has encouraged the creation of local shareholding co-operatives to manage village assets and to distribute dividends. https://www.economist.com/china/2023/08/10/why-chinese-women-are-denied-legal-land-rights? This article is behind a paywall but raises a question which may be relevant to India too. I learnt that in Meghalaya the khasi tribal law is that land can be held only by the youngest daughter and no land is registered in the name of a man. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZoqPaFwAFkSbX8NaJKNtOb%2BdnJs0NgDLqLRVvEGpitgKJQ%40mail.gmail.com.
