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Starboard Tack

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Thu Jan 19, 2012, 02:55 PM Jan 2012

Meghalaya, India: Where women rule, and men are suffragettes [View all]

In the small hilly Indian state of Meghalaya, a matrilineal system operates with property names and wealth passing from mother to daughter rather than father to son - but some men are campaigning for change.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16592633

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