Journal of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

In his Western orientation he was a late follower of the Romantic school of those who opposed the traditional classicism in the name of a return to the intensive religiosity and the mysticism of the Middle Ages. [...] The women work under the wife of the Head though when the Head's mother is alive the latter is the chief woman in the house. [...] The partition dispute described here occurred in the joint family of the late Sadhu I. The present male head of the joint family is Sadhu II son of Sadhu I and the female head is Kempamma mother of Sadhu II and widow of Sadhu I. The joint family is made up of Kempamma Sadhu II and his wife and children Kempayya and his wife and daughter Honnayya II the minor son of the late Honnayya I Kenc [...] The Patel is the most important man in Rampura and by virtue of his office wealth the nobility of his lineage and his personality is the leader of the brotherhood. [...] The terms of the division were no doubt going to be reduced to writing but the Patel advised against the registration of the partition deed as that would mean expense and make the terms of the deed inviolable—mutual readjustments would become impossible subsequently.