other wife living; (e) if he keeps a concubine in the same house in which his wife is living or habitually resides with a concubine
Hindu Law--Married Brahmin woman becoming concubine of
Sudra male-having children--Their rights of
maintenance--Whether such rights affected by the Hindu
Adoption ... during the lifetime of her husband became the permanently
kept concubine of L, a sudra by caste. The other three
respondents were the sons
called sword wives in distinction to the dancing girls who were ordinary concubines, and 17 natural children begotten by the Raja through sword wives ... five married wives. It proceeds-- "Besides these, he had six concubines, of whom only one belonged to Mahratta caste ; the other five belonged
brother as
illegitimate sons of Faizu Ahir having been born of a
concubine. A complaint was filed against the appellant for
having made the above ... Sahdeo Mahto as illegitimate sons of Faizu Ahir
having been born of concubine.
The prosecution case was that the complainant's brother
been married to the said Palaniswamy and that she was only his concubine. They also alleged that so far as the particular part ... husband and wife but was one of paramour and concubine. Therefore the contest between the parties mainly centres round the nature of the relationship between
defendant by their mother Chinnammal who was a continuously and exclusively kept concubine of the 1st defendant, Muthiah Chetty, and that as Sudras they ... children. He also denied that Chinnammal was a continuously and exclusively kept concubine of his, though he admitted that he used to visit her occasionally
Papammal, a lady belonging to the
Vellala caste, as his exclusively kept concubine from
1919 onwards. By her ho had five children, four
sons ... daughter.
He has constructed for his concubine and her children a house called "Kalyana Mahala" in the very same compound, as the family
important question of Hindu law regarding the status of a permanently kept concubine whose husband is living, and her right to be maintained ... nearly seventeen years till his death. She was thus his "permanent concubine," and, to use the words of Lord Darling in Bai Nagubai
also well settled that the son must be born of a continuous concubine, and also that he must not be the issue of a connection ... that this meant more than that she must have been a continuous concubine, but it is now suggested, very largely on the authority of this
Taluk in January, 1952 and has been living with him as his concubine openly. The case for the wife was that this appellant ... dissolution of marriage on the ground that the wife is the concubine of any other man or is leading the life of a prostitute. This