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.

Sep 2, 2022 · Pickle maker George Isaac could not have done a greater service to Syrian Christian women than ask his young sister Mary Roy, who had just walked out of her abusive marriage, to immediately pack and leave their father's cottage in Ooty.

Mar 31, 2024 · It discusses all the details one should learn about while reading about the landmark judgement of Mary Roy v. State of Kerala, passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in 1986. This judgement gave equal intestate succession rights to women belonging to the Indian Christian Community.

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 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 3, 2022 · Mary Roy was a divorced single mother from an affluent Syrian Christian family. Her father was an entomologist who had trained in London. Mary, who had married a Bengali man against her...

Oct 30, 2010 · Now Mary Roy, her sister and her widowed sister-in-law can own nine cents of land each in their family property which was under the custody of her eldest brother George Isaac. The nine cents would fetch Mary Roy more than Rs 10 crore, thanks to its prime location.

Sep 10, 2022 · The passing away of educator, activist and Arundhati Roy’s mother Mary Roy on September 1 this year, is perhaps a fittingly elegiac time to examine the life and transgressions, big and small, of Ammu, nut-brown mother in The God Of Small Things.

Dec 5, 2022 · After some years when Mary Roy decided to move back to her ancestral house in Kerela but was not allowed to stay with her family. Thus, she decided to take the issue to the Supreme Court and fight for her rights.

Sep 1, 2022 · Mary Roy will be buried in her residential compound close to the Pallikoodam school on Friday. In her death, Kerala lost its famous fighter for justice and gender parity.