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 Kerala

    Kerala lives in the southernmost state in the Indian subcontinent. The name Kerala is believed to come from the words kera (coconut) which is a product of the western coast of India, and alam. The Kerala region has been mentioned as "garden species", the region was also known as Male or Malabar which comes from the word "Malandu" which means the hill country. Malayalam is the naticve language of the Kerala people.

 Islamic doctrine holds that human existence continues after the death of the human body in the form of spiritual and physical resurrection. Which I think is an interesting fact about Kerala. They also live in a caste system.


Kin regulations and Family Relations

Up until recent times kinship in Kerala was characterized by the matrilineal system of inheritance. Which consisted of the inheritance & succession through the sisters children and the female


line. Tharavad is a Malayalam word for ancestral home. The main residence in a taravard included female members, their children, and brothers. However the female members' husbands , her brothers wives and children are not under her taravard. Though in the late twentieth century the last of the Matrilineal system of inheritance was terminated in Kerala by legislative act. Their predominant mode of marriage are arranged marriages. Interesting marriage was not seen as a "sacred contract" but as a "purely fugitive alliance terminable at will." Yet the bond between brother and sister is considered more sacrosanct than that between a husband and wife. 

Interestingly Kerala has an older age of marriage at 20 years old, in contrast to the median age of 16 for India. In terms of inheritance the women often receive more than the males do when the father or parents die. In Kerala they definitely prize women over men which is strange because in most places men are seen as more valuable. The "Travancore Census Report if the 1875 goes as far as to say that'... a female child is prized more highly than that a male one'. (cited in Jeffery, 1989)"


Chacko, Elizabeth. “Marriage, Development, and the Status of Women in Kerala, India.” Gender and Development 11, no. 2 (2003): 52–59. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4030640.

Abraham, Santhosh. 2017. “Culture Summary: Kerala.” New Haven: Human Relations Area Files. https://ehrafworldcultures-yale-edu.northernkentuckyuniversity.idm.oclc.org/document?id=aw11-000.

Aiyappan, A. 1965. Social Revolution in a Kerala Village: A Study in Culture Change. New York: Asia Publishing House. https://ehrafworldcultures-yale-edu.northernkentuckyuniversity.idm.oclc.org/document?id=aw11-035.

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