This book tells the story of how a longstanding matrilineal society, in which women provided the reference point for the control of property, began to crumble in the late nineteenth century, eaten away by the demands of a modernized state and ridiculed by foreign missionaries and Hindu critics from elsewhere.

ISBN 13: 9788173040658

ISBN 10: 8173040656

Year: 2014

Pages etc.: Reprint of 1976: xxvii+393p., (2)maps, (10)tables, (2)figs.,abb., app., gloss., bibl., ind., 23cm

Binding: Hardbound

Subject(s): History