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About Mary Roy
Mary Roy was an Indian educator and women's rights activist known for winning a Supreme Court lawsuit in 1986 against the inheritance law prevalent within the Syrian Malabar Nasrani community of Kerala. The judgement ensured equal rights for Syrian Christian women as with their male siblings in their ancestral property. Until then, the Syrian Christian community in Kerala were subject to the provisions of the Travancore Christian Succession Act of 1916 and the Cochin Succession Act, 1921, while elsewhere in India the same community was subject to the Indian Succession Act of 1925.
Everything about Mary Roy →- Occupation
- women's rights activist, educator
- Citizenship
- India
- Born
- 1933
- Died
- September 1, 2022