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Concept of maintenace in Garo customary law
Hill societies, their modernisation : a study of north east with special reference to Garo Hills • New Delhi • Published In 1995 • Pages: 69-75
By: Pathak, Manjushree.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this brief article a lawyer examines maintenance law among the Garo. The 'personal obligation to maintain certain near relations as dependents' is Hindu custom and has been written into Hindu criminal law, with respect to the maintenance of wives, parents, and children by a male household head. The author wonders if similar obligations are found in a matriarchal society such as the Garo. The answer is yes and no. Among the Garo, it is the NOKNA daughter and her husband, who are obligated to support her parents (his in-laws.) A divorced woman has no right to support by her husband. however her husband's lineage is expected to find a replacement for her. The mother is responsible for any illegitimate children. A claim to maintenance by sons and daughters ceases with marriage.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Termination of marriage
- Household
- Family relationships
- Legal norms
- Judicial authority
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Garo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Lawyer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1953-1978
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Garo Hills Autonomous District, Meghalaya State, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- [Manjushree Pathak]
- Includes bibliographical references (p.75)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95910488
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Garo (Indic people)