Girls Rule in an Indian Village – NYTimes.com

But the jungle village of 500 residents offered a different lure for Karolin Klüppel, a Berlin-based photographer: It is home to the indigenous Khasi, one of the world’s rare matrilineal societies. When Ms. Klüppel heard about the Khasi during an artist-in-residency program in the western Indian state Goa, she knew she wanted to experience — and visually capture — something of this society.