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Mary Roy (1933 – 1 September 2022) was an Indian educator and women's rights activist known for winning a Supreme Court lawsuit in 1986 against the inheritance law prevalent within the Syrian Malabar Nasrani community of Kerala. The judgement ensured equal rights for Syrian Christian women as with their male siblings in their ancestral property.
Sep 1, 2022 · Mary Roy passed away on Thursday. A four-way partition of 75 cents of land in Kottayam turned into a watershed moment for gender equality in 1986 when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Mary Roy who had challenged laws that did not allow Syrian Christian daughters to inherit property.
Aug 12, 2020 · Mary Roy, an educator, and activist from Kerala fought a long and hard battle for almost 39 years against her brother, George Issac, to have equal rights to the property her late father had left behind.
Sep 1, 2022 · Educator and women’s rights activist Mary Roy, who passed away on Thursday (September 1), was best known for the “Mary Roy” case, the prolonged legal battle that ensured equal property rights for women from Kerala’s Syrian Christian families.
Sep 1, 2022 · Mary Roy, activist and educationist who passed away on September 1, Thursday, at the age of 89 leaves behind a legacy that lives on through thousands of students and women that her...
Sep 1, 2022 · Mary Roy, an educator and a women's rights activist, on whose petition the Supreme court delivered the landmark judgment against the Travancore Christian Succession Act of 1916 to...
Sep 3, 2022 · Kerala. A tribute to Mary Roy, the Goddess of big triumphs. Roy as a lone woman fought against the repressive Tranvancore Christian Succession Act which barred Syrian Christian women from...
Sep 2, 2022 · Mary Roy, an educator and a women’s rights activist, the mother of author Arundhati Roy, was known for winning a landmark Supreme Court case in 1986 that ensured equal rights in the family property for women belonging to the Syrian Christian community in Kerala, south India.
Sep 1, 2022 · Mary Roy, 89, who passed away in Kottayam on Thursday morning, was not just a women's rights activist. She was an academician and a champion of gender equality.
Sep 1, 2022 · Academician and women's rights activist Mary Roy passed away in Kerala’s Kottayam on Thursday, September 1. She was 89. Mary Roy was the mother of Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy.
