Mary Roy
Mary Roy | |
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Born | 1933 Kingdom of Travancore, British India |
Died | 1 September 2022 Kottayam, Kerala, India | (aged 88–89)
Occupation(s) | Educator, women's rights activist |
Children | 2, including Arundhati Roy |
Mary Roy (1933 – 1 September 2022) was an Indian educator and
Mary Roy was denied her share of the familial property due to the Travancore Christian Succession Act of 1916. She sued her brother after her father's death for equal inheritance.[4] In the case Mary Roy Etc v State of Kerala and Others that was heard by the Supreme Court of India, she won the case against her brother.[5]
She was the founder-director of Pallikoodam (formerly Corpus Christi High School) at Kalathilpady, a suburb of Kottayam town in the state of Kerala. Her daughter is the Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy.[4]
Mary Roy Etc v State of Kerala and Others
Mary Roy Etc v State of Kerala and Others is considered a landmark case in the
When the case was taken up by the Supreme Court of India, a bench led by Justice
A bill was introduced by P. J. Kurien from the Congress party in the parliament to undo the retrospective application which did not find much support. A subsequent bill from the Kerala government under K. Karunakaran, Travancore and Cochin Succession (Revival and Validation) Bill did not receive presidential assent. A subsequent motion in the Supreme Court was also dismissed.[5] Though she won the case, Roy did not get access to the property because a district court ruled that division of the property was not possible. Roy approached the Kerala High Court in 1994 to get the lower court's judgement overruled. She was successful. After her mother's death in 2000, she approached the Kottayam Sub-court for the final decree. The case continued for eight years after which she filed the execution petition in 2009, and she finally received the property in 2010.[5][3] It is noted that her share of the property was ₹2 crores, an amount that she left to charity.[5]
Other initiatives
Roy was the founder-director of Pallikoodam (formerly Corpus Christi High School) at Kalathilpady, a suburb of Kottayam town in the state of Kerala.[4][7]
Personal life
Mary Roy was the daughter of P. V. Isaac, an entomologist who trained in England under
Roy had two children: a son, and daughter Arundhati Roy[5] who is a Booker Prize winning author.
The God of Small Things, written by Arundhati Roy, has a character, Ammu, who was based on her mother Mary. Mary confirmed she was very similar to the character her daughter wrote, however, she was never involved with a man of lower caste, as was the case in the book. In the interview, she details how Arundhati declared independence from her mother and both had a strained relationship for that particular period. However, she declared she was proud of Arundhati's accomplishments and did not expect that she would win the Man Booker Prize.[12]
Roy died in Kottayam on 1 September 2022, after a long period of age-related illness.[15][16]
References
- ^ Iype, George. "Ammu may have some similarities to me, but she is not Mary Roy". rediff. Archived from the original on 11 February 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ Jacob, George (29 May 2006). "Bank seeks possession of property in Mary Roy case". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 31 May 2006. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- ^ a b c "മേരി റോയി ജ്യേഷ്ഠനോട് പറഞ്ഞു: 'എടുത്തുകൊള്ളുക'". Mathrubhumi. Archived from the original on 20 May 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Why Mary Roy sued her family and what it did to Syrian Christians". OnManorama. Archived from the original on 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ^ "The landmark Mary Roy case in SC, which gave Syrian Christian women equal right to property". The Indian Express. 1 September 2022. Archived from the original on 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ^ from the original on 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ^ "Rebel, activist, educator: Mary Roy lived life on her terms, changed lives of others". The News Minute. 1 September 2022. Archived from the original on 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ^ "Educator-activist Mary Roy, who got Syrian Christian women equal rights, dies at 89". The Indian Express. 1 September 2022. Archived from the original on 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- S2CID 6207674.
- from the original on 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ^ a b "There's something about Mary – Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- ^ "Social Worker Mary Roy Dies At 89". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ^ "Noted social worker Mary Roy dies at 89". ThePrint. PTI. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ ലേഖകൻ, മാധ്യമം (1 September 2022). "സാമൂഹിക പ്രവർത്തക മേരി റോയ് അന്തരിച്ചു". Madhyamam (in Malayalam). Retrieved 4 September 2022.
External links
- About Us – Pallikoodam Official website
- Mary Roy Etc v State of Kerala and Others