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Conflict and Compromise: Devolution and Disposal of Property in a Matrilineal Muslim Society

History provides examples of societies that come to accept two sets of rules simultaneously, both being viewed as sacrosanct: those subsumed in traditional customary law and derived essentially from kinship; and those subsumed in the legal codes of their new faiths. The inhabitants of the Lakshadwee...

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Published in:	Economic and political weekly 1994-05, Vol.29 (21), p.1273-1284
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Subjects:	Children Coconuts Gift deeds Islamic law Kinship Land ownership Property deeds Property inheritance Property rights Sons Special Articles
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