Girls Rule in an Indian Village – NYTimes.com

Girls Rule in an Indian Village

In the remote village Mawlynnong, a matrilineal society inspired a photographer to make portraits of self-assured young women.

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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.