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 this is what happens when people use google scholar to push their POV and biases and try to be wannabe ethnographers.silver seren there is an excellent and rather lengthy description of this complex social practice of nairs which was limited to the aristocratic clans in a thesis of Kathleen Gough in the harvard university library.though i doubt if it is available online.when i was there at widener few years back i had to obtain prior permission to read it and i could only go through half of it.if anyone lives in the U.S. right now or has access to them can help.also i agree a separate article on this subject is very relevant since this practice doesn't exactly fit the textbook definition of Polyandry since the relations were never stable as nair women had the right to divorce.'''Geek "