44 SOCIAL SCIENTI TABLE I ST KIN GATE' GtORIES AMONG MUSLIMS IN TERMS OF GROUPING Categories of kins Patterns of realationship in terms of groupings Examples (A) KHANDAN Consanguinal kins Lineage kins or cognates Ai) K-has Khandan Close consanguinal kins or the elementary family Grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters and grandchildren. Aii) Gvvati K-handan Distant consanguinal kins or the extended households Father's brother's children, brother's children and other members of the lineage. (B) KUTUMB Affinal kins Agnates Bi) Baper Kutumb or Pitri Kutumb Affinal kins on father's side Sister's husband, sister^s son, sister's daughter, father's sistcr*s husband, father's sister's sons and daughters. BiiJ Maer Kutumb or Matri Kutumb Affinal kins on mother's side Mother's father, mother's brother and mother's mother etc. BiiiJ Appna Kutumb or Nejar Kutumb Affinal kins on one's own, i.e. self, side Husband or wife, parents-in-laws brothers and sisters - in - law, daughter^ husband, daughter's childern etc. repaid out of his/her property. After that the remaining property is divided among the heirs. A person can divide the property among his/her heirs while still alive or the heirs can divide the property after his/her death. Besides these, one can also dispose of property while still alive to anybody according to his/her wish. According to the Muslim law of inheritance a man's property is divided in the following way: After the death of a person ^ one-eighth of his property is inherited by his wife (if alive), and the rest by the sons and daughters. But the share of the sons is always double that of the daugthters.All brothers have equal share and so also all the sisters. If the wife is not alive at the time of his death the entire property is divided among his sons and daughters. In a polygamous family all the wives as well as their sons and daughters have the right to share in proportion mentioned above. If the parents of the deceased are alive, then they also have the right to inherit one-fourth of the share from the deceased's property. In the absence of parents, wife and daughters, the property is equally divided among the sons. When the decased has no wife and son at all but he has brothers, sisters, and daughters, in that case the latter have the right to inherit the deceased's property. Here, the most important thing to be noted is that in the absence of brother, sister and daughter their sons can also claim the share. In the