English: reproduction of Nair joint family, Tharavad (
Tharavad) from this article (
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2843423). Caption on en: reads: A typical tharavad reproduced from Panikkar's article published in 1918. Capital and small letters represent females and males respectively. Supposing that the females A, B and C were dead and the oldest male member karnavan being d, if the male members t, k and others demanded partition, the property would be divided into three parts.
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JOURNAL ARTICLE - Some Aspects of Nayar Life by K. M. Panikkar. Published in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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