Tharavad
Tharavad (
pronunciation ) is Malayalam word for ancestral home, usually used as the common house for the joint family system practised by people in Kerala.[1]
. Hermann Gundert in his Malayalam - English dictionary published in 1872 lists Tharavad as "ancestral residence of land-owners" and also as "a house, chiefly of noblemen".[2] Contemporary usage of the word is more generic to all social classes.[1]
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 memberkarnavan being d, if the male members t, k and others demanded partition, the property would be divided into three parts.
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References
- 1 2 "തറവാട്". ml.wiktionary.org. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ↑ Hermann Gundert (1872). A Malayalam and English Dictionary. C. Stolz. p. 434. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
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