The sons, when mere children, are married to mature females, and the father-inlaw of the bride assumes the performance of the procreative function, thus assuring for himself and his son a descendant to take them out of ' Put. ' When the putative father... The Imperial Gazetteer of India - Page 239by William Wilson Hunter - 1886Full view - About this book
| Salem (India : District) - 1883 - 464 pages
...prevailing amongst the Kollimalai Malaiâlis. The sons when mere children are married to mature females, and the father-in-law of the bride assumes the performance...thus assuring for himself and his son a descendant to take them out of " Put." When the putative father comes of age and in 1 Highest peak 4,663 foet.... | |
| William Wilson Hunter - India - 1886 - 560 pages
...caste, but all her children are considered to be those of her husband alone. The sons of Malaydlfs, when mere children, are married to mature women, and...are married, he performs for them the same office which his father did for him. In certain localities it is imperative on a widow to marry again. Even... | |
| Government Museum (Chennai, India) - Ethnology - 1894 - 680 pages
...is thus referred to by Mr. LeFanu : " The suns, when mere children, are married to mature females, and the father-inlaw of the bride assumes the performance...procreative function, thus assuring for himself and bis son a descendant to take them out of ' Put. ' When the putative father comes of age, and in their... | |
| Government Museum (Madras, India) - Ethnology - 1900 - 690 pages
...(hill cultivators of the Salem district). The sons, when mere children, are married to mature females, and the father-inlaw of the bride assumes the performance...thus assuring for himself and his son a descendant to take them out of Put. When the putative father comes of age, and iu their turn his wife's male offspring... | |
| Government Museum (Chennai, India) - Ethnology - 1900 - 704 pages
...(hill cultivators of tho Salem district). The sons, when mere children, are married to mature females, and the father-inlaw of the bride assumes the performance...thus assuring for himself and his son a descendant to take them out of Put. When the putative father comes of age, and in their turn his wife's male offspring... | |
| Edgar Thurston - Ethnology - 1906 - 680 pages
...cultivators) of the Salem district. " The sons, when mere children, are married to mature females, and the father-in-law of the bride assumes the performance...thus assuring for himself and his son a descendant to take them out of Put. When the putative father comes of age, and in their turn his wife's male offspring... | |
| Edwin Sidney Hartland - Childbirth - 1909 - 348 pages
...Among the Malaiaiis of the Sajem district " the sons when mere children are married to mature females, and the father-in-law of the bride assumes the performance...thus assuring for himself and his son a descendant to take them out of Put. When the putative father comes of age and in their turn his wife's male offspring... | |
| Anthropology - 1914 - 286 pages
...thus described by Mr. H. Lefanu* :— " The sons, when mere children, are married to mature females, and the fatherin-law of the bride assumes the performance...thus assuring for himself and his son a descendant to take them out of Put.^ When the putative father comes of age, and in their turn his wife's male... | |
| Madras (India : State) - Madras (India) - 1918 - 368 pages
...Gazetteer, p. 115. CHAP. III. SOEVF.Y OF CASTE*. Malaiyalis. children are married to mature females and the father-in-law of the bride assumes the performance of the procreative function " — and raises up a progeny on his son's behalf. " When the putative father comes of age, and in... | |
| Edgar Thurston - Anthropology - 2004 - 104 pages
...is thus referred to by Mr. LeFanu : " The sons, when mere children, are married to mature females, and the father-inlaw of the bride assumes the performance...thus assuring for himself and his son a descendant to take them out of ' Put. ' When the putative father comes of age, and in their turn his wife's male... | |
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