Mary Roy

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MARY ROY is an Indian educator and women's rights activist, who became famous after winning a landmark lawsuit in 1986, against the inheritance legislation of her Keralite Syrian Christian community in the Supreme Court. The judgement ensured equal rights for Syrian Christian women, with their male siblings in their ancestral property [1] [2]

Roy is the founder-director of the popular ''Pallikoodam' school (formerly Corpus Christi High School) at Kalathilpady, a suburb of Kottayam town in the state of Kerala [3]; she is also the mother of novelist Arundhati Roy.

She is from Aymanam, Kerala.

[edit] References

  1. ^ An Interview with Mary Roy www.rediff.com.
  2. ^ Mary Roy case The Hindu, May 29, 2006.
  3. ^ About Principal Pallikoodam Official website.
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