Marumakkathayam is a peculiar social institution which was practiced in Kerala society during the medieval period. The social, economic and cultural aspects of the contemporary life of the period were influenced by this system. The emergence of feudalism, the predominance of Brahmins in the social hierarchy, absence of social mobility and political fragmentation were the developments that coincided with this system. The institution was the inheritance and succession through the sister’s children in the female line tracing descent from a common ancestress. A large group of people descended from a…
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