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- CERTIFICATE
- DECLARATION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- CONTENTS
- I Introduction
- The Region
- Historical Context
- Communities Under Study
- Sources
- Historiography
- Methodology
- About The Chapters
- II Land Rights of Kerala through the Ages
- Early Historic Period
- The Emergence of a Non-Kin Based System of Production
- Rise of the Temples and Patterns of Land Holdings
- Rise of Natuvali Swarupam-s
- Garden Lands Economy
- Tara and the Emergence of Taravad
- Taravad and Land Relations
- Summary
- III The Nair Community, Marumakkattayam and Taravad: Aspects of Colonial Constructs
- The Creation of the Nair Community
- The Construction of the Image of the Nair s
- As the Martial Caste
- Marital Relations - Talikettu-kalyanam and Sambandham
- Constructing Marumakkattayam
- As Primitive
- As Against the Law of Nature
- As Breeding Nepotism
- Taravad as Constructed in Colonial Writings
- Taravad in Post-Colonial Studies
- Tavazhi in Relation to the Taravad
- Summary
- IV The Representational Effect: Legislative initiatives
- Taravad Under Pressure
- Legislative Initiatives
- Sankaran Nairs Bill (1890)
- Malabar Marriage Commission (1891)
- The Malabar Marriage Act (1896)
- Working of the Act of 1896
- Madras Wills Act (1898)
- Legislations in Travancore
- Malabar Inheritance Bill (1910)
- The Malabar Partition Bill (1910)
- The Malabar Marriage and Inheritance Bill and the Malabar Partition and Succession Bill (1913)
- The Mappilla Succession Act (1918)
- The Taravad Management Bill (1924)
- The Mappilla Marumakkattayam Act (1928)
- The Marumakkattayam and Aliyasanthana Branch Partition Bill
- The Mappilla Marumakkattayam Act (1930)
- The Madras Marumakkattayam Act (1933)
- Women and the Process of Reform
- Summary
- V Forms of Property and Relations: The Changing Legal Scenario
- Section I Property Relations in Taravad
- Understanding Property
- Property Rights in the Taravad
- Self-acquired Property and Self- earned Income
- Putravakasam Property
- Sthanom Property
- Attalatakkom Heir-ship to the Taravad Properties
- Section II Juridical Process under Colonisation
- Judicial System In Pre-British Malabar
- The British Judicial System and the Making of the Judicial Code
- Marumakkattayam Law and the Mitakshara Law
- Section III The Changing Structure of the Taravad and the Colonial Jurisprudence
- Strengthening the Position of the Karanavan
- Curbs on the Karanavans Powers
- Removal from Karanavan-ship
- Family Karar-s
- Emergence of the Chief Anandaravan
- Formation of Tavazhi-s
- Partition
- Maintenance
- Section IV Women and Marumakkattayam
- Summary
- VI Conclusion
- BIBILIOGRAPHY
- APPENDICES
- A Non-English terms and their diacritical marks
- B. Glossary
- C. Abbreviations
- D The Malabar inheritance Bill, 1910 (Bill No. 1 of 1910)
- E The Malabar Succession and Partition Bill, 1910
- F The Tarawad Management Bill, 1924
- G The Marumakkathayam and the Aliyasanthana Branch Partition Bill
- H The Marumakkathayam Bill, 1931