CUSTOMARY LAW AND GENDER INEQUALITY: A CASE STUDY OF GOND COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL INDIA
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Customs, Gender Injustice, Gond, Inheritance, MarriageAbstract
India is deliberated as an anthropological lab due to its local, ethnic, religious, linguistic and racial diversities. Population of India is an integral component of its social fabric. Madhya Pradesh has the major (23.27%) tribal population in the country. The major Scheduled Tribes in Madhya Pradesh are Gond, Oraon and Kanwar. The current study is a challenge to analyze and examine customary and customs laws of women of the Gond community in Central India specifically in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh. The study is primarily based on the customary laws of inheritance and marriage. The study is exploratory and contemporary in nature. Some legal cases are compiled to examine the customary laws that govern the lives of Gond women. The study reveals the Gond tribe had patriarchal, patrilineal, or patrilocal customary law. Inheritance of succession and property of chieftainship is actually in the male line. Matrimony is patrilocal and expert in the household is clearly patriarchal.
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