76 SOCIAL SCIENTIST 56. Sullivan, Report on the Provinces of Malabar and Canara dt. 29.th January 1841, Calicut, Collectorate Press, 1916, p. 6. 57. limes C.A., Malabar, op.dt., p. 106. See also William Logan, Mftlabar, Vol. I, p. 156 and 157 for a detailed list of customs of Malabar Brahmans. 58. The main provisions in this Act were that the younger Nambudiris may marry Nambudiri girls and jthat the Illom property can be inherited by (hese younger sons. Because of the new law, there was a gradual change, and many Illoms weree dividing mainly due ?to quarrels between the members. For details see: Adrian Mayar C., Land and Society in Malabar, Bombay, Oxford University Press, 1952, Chapter 5. 59. Krishna Warriyer A., in Sailer Gilbert (ed.), op.dt., p. 177, 60. This Act made forward partiable and legalised inheritance from father to son. The effect of the Act had led to split up both the partilineally and matrilineally inherited estates. Before this Act, a Nayar Tarward could divide only with the consent of the Kama van. A forward under this Act can divide if it has previously been voted as a potentially divisible forward by a majority of its members.