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6. In Sadu v. Baisa 4B 37 (F.B.) it was held following Rahi v. Govind 1 B. 97, that in the Bombay Presidency, among Shudras the illegitimate offspring of a kept woman or continuous concubine are on the eame level as to inheritance as the dasiputra or son of female slave by a Shudra.

7. In Rajani Nath Das v. Nitai Chandra Dey 63 Ind. Cas. 50 : A.I.R. 1921 Cal. 820 : 48 C. 643 : 32 C.L.J. 433 : 25 C.W.N. 453 : (F.B.) it was held that an illegitimate son of a Shudra was entitled as a dasiputra to a share of the inheritance, provided that his mother was in the continuous and exclusive keeping of his father, and he was not the fruit of an adulterous or an incestuous intercourse.

9. In Soundararajan v. Arunachalam Chetty 33 Ind. Cas. 858 : 39 M. 136 : 39 M.L.J. 793 : 2 L.W. 1247 : 18 M.L.T. 552 : (1916) 1 M.W.N. 31 (F.B.) It was held by the Pull Bench of the Madras High Court that the illegitimate son of a Shudra by a dancing woman who was by profession a prostitute before she came into his keeping but who was kept by him in continuous and exclusive concubinage thereafter was entitled to get his appropriate share in the joint family property after his father's death, provided the connexion between his father and mother was not incestuous or adulterous, At page 150 Page of 40 B.--[Ed.] it was observed that the limitation as to her being an exclusive and continuous concubine is not to be found in the texts and appears to have been imposed by the Courts as necessary to secure due evidence of the paternity, just as the further restriction that the connexion must not have been incestuous or adulterous was imposed on general grounds of morality. It was held in Subramania Ayyar v. Rath-navelu Chetty 42 Ind. Cas. 556 : 41 M. 44 : 22 M.L.J. 94 : 6 L.W. 149 : 33 M.L.J. 224 : (1917) M.W.N. 688 (F.B.) that it was not necessary that the woman should be an unmarried woman.