That's his view. Let me ask you, why were such experiments initiated in any case. After all women in Kerala particularly from the Nair Samajam were very independent. The Nairs follow matriarchy. It's called Marumakkathayam. Being a Malayali yourself, you are familiar with it. I don't expect that Islamicist to be familiar with it. Or better still, even if he were, he'd deliberately suppress this info. Coz it doesn't suit his narrative.
Women in matrilineal families / societies definitely enjoyed more freedom & independence than in patrilineal or Patriarchal societes . There are ample studies to prove this across the world not restricted to Kerala. Coming from matrilineal family myself I can attest to the fact that my grandmother inherited the ancestral lands and house from her mother. All this changed after the Hindu code bill came into being.
As rascist or bigoted or misogynistic as it may sound, it still doesn't explain why people who indulged in sambandham were perfectly at ease with it. What you have here are outside perspectives from a different caste, religion, region time & age viewing these issues through our own prisms with attendant biases.
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What if the Nairs themselves saw it the way Golwalkar did? They may well have seen it as an honor. The Namboodaris & Nairs did enjoy a symbiotic relationship lasting centuries. Sambandham was obviously part of it.
Nah, all wrong, comrades were limited to not attacking britishers, collecting money for China when they attacked India and killing few thousand Indians supporting, training Naxals.
