Power, property and patriarchy plague Meghalaya's Khasi matrilineal society

Power, property and patriarchy plague Meghalaya's Khasi matrilineal society

[New Indian Express] - 03/8/2025

KOLKATA: For hundreds of years, Meghalaya's Khasi community, the largest ethnic group in the northeastern state, has followed a rare matrilineal system, where lineage and inheritance pass through the mother. But this society has now been suffering from an increasing influence of patriarchy and (…)



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