Mary Roy
Indian educator
Mary Roy 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. Wikipedia
Born: 1933, Aymanam, India
Died: September 1, 2022 (age 89 years), Kottayam, India
Children: Arundhati Roy
Education: School of Planning and Architecture (SPA)
Organization founded: Pallikoodam School
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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 ...
Sep 2, 2022 · Roy went to court in 1983 and got the Act abolished in 1986, and that too with retrospective effect. She was the youngest of PV Isaac's and Susy Isaac's four ...
Sep 2, 2022 · Mary Roy, esteemed humanitarian and educationist who became famous for her legal pursuit to ensure equal rights for Syrian Christian women ...
Sep 1, 2022 · Mary Roy, mother of renowned writer Arundhati Roy, fought a 49-year-long legal battle to gain equal access to the property of her deceased father.
Mary Roy sued her brother George Issac in 1960 to gain equal access to the property of her deceased father P.V. Issac. The battle lasted for 39 long years and ...
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 ...
Sep 1, 2022 · Roy, an educator, gender rights activist and mother of Booker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy, died in Kottayam on Thursday. She was 89.
Sep 1, 2023 · Mary Roy is best known for fighting the landmark case that allowed Kerala's Syrian Christian women equal rights in their father's property.
Sep 1, 2022 · Mary Roy, the acclaimed educator and hardboiled activist who passed away on Thursday at the age of 89, was a survivor who learnt a great deal ...