[This post is from a Facebook post by Reju George in the group Bygone Plantation days, 3 June 2024. He is her grand nephew. Teresa Joseph belongs to a generation of Syrian Christian and Nair who chose to stay unmarried at a time when dowry rates were rising and dowry as groom-price was becoming pervasive across the elite communities. They chose professional work, and other kinds of economic and public activities, as Reju’s memories reveal. Teresa’s work as a philanthropist also throws light on a very poorly researched area of women’s history in Kerala.]
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