Find out the reasons for women’s low position in rural society in India:

I. Exclusion from the ownership of land

II. Matrilineal kinship system

III. Patrilineal kinship system

IV. Mode of inheritance in favour of female members

I and III

I and III only.

In most regions of India, women are usually excluded from ownership of land, because of the prevailing patrilineal kinship system and mode of inheritance. By law women are supposed to have an equal share of family property. In reality they only have limited rights and some access to land only as part of a household headed by a man.

Mode of inheritance is not in favour of women in India hence statement IV incorrect.