Consider the following statements related to women landholdings in India. Which of the following statements are correct? 1. In most regions of India, women are usually excluded from ownership of land, because of the prevailing Patrilineal kinship system and mode of inheritance. 2. Law also does not provide women an equal share of family property.

1 only 2 only Both 1 and 2 Neither 1 nor 2

1 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.