1188 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
governed by the Madras Aliyasantana Act, 1949 (Madras Act IX of 1949);
(iii) in item (iii), as so renumbered, omit “except in sections 44 and 49”;
(iv) in the Explanation to item (v), as so renumbered, for “this clause” substitute “clauses (iv) and (v)”;
(v) renumber the existing items (v), (vi), (vii) and (viii) as items (viii), (ix), (x) and (xi), and insert the following as items (vi) and (vii), namely :
(vi) “Marumakkattayam law” means the system of law applicable to persons—
(a) who, if this Code had not been passed, would have been governed by the Madras Marumakkattayam Act, 1932 (Madras Act, XXII of 1933), the Travancore Nair Act, II of 1100, the Nanjindad Vellala Act, 1101, the Travancore Kshatriya Act,
1108, the Travancore Krishnavaka-Marumakkathayee Act,
1115, the Cochin Thiyya Act, VIII of 1107, the Cochin Nayar Act, XXIX of 1113, or the Cochin Marurnakkathayam Act, XXXIII of 1113, or
(b) who belong to any community, the members of which are largely domiciled in the State of Travancore-Cochin or Madras, and who, if this code had not been passed, would have been governed by any system of inheritance in which descent is traced through the female line ;
but does not include the Aliyasantana law ;
(vii) ‘Nambudri law’ means the law applicable to persons who, if this Code had not been passed, would have been governed by the Madras Nambudri Act, 1932 (Madras Act XXI of 1933), the Cochin Nambudri Act (XVII of 1114), or the Travancore Malayala Brahmin Act of 1106 (Regulation III of 1106) ;’ ;
(vi) in item (viii) as so renumbered, for “any” substitue “a”.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad : My amendment No. 410 comes in by way of priority according to the subject because this amendment is the real clause. My amendment seeks to delete ‘Aliasantana law’.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : The Hon. Member may move it.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad : I beg to move: In the amendment proposed by Dr. Ambedkar, in part (ii), omit the proposed part (i) of clause 3.