MATRIPOTESTAL
It is a form of family in which authority is centered in the wife or mother. The matripotestal family system implies rule of the family by the mother, not by the father. Women are entitled to perform religious rites and husband lives in the house of wife. It is also called mother-right family or maternal family under which the status, name and sometimes inheritance is transmitted through the female line. Such family is now found among the Khasi and Garo tribes of Assam and Meghalaya, among Nayars of Malabar in Kerala.
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