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Long closed to foreigners, Meghalaya in the northeast of India is nothing but diversity; the variety of its flora and fauna is as important as that of languages and religions. Entering this state with its rugged terrain is like setting foot in a feminine universe. It is not uncommon to find women selling cigarettes, meat or fresh vegetables on improvised stalls. Even in Shillong, the capital whose population is 70% Khasi, women are everywhere. And for anyone who has already traveled in the Indian subcontinent, the contrast with the rest of the country is all the more striking. Here, there are no arranged marriages with a dowry, making selective abortions and female infanticide unnecessary. Meghalaya is the Indian state where the balance between the sexes is most preserved. This province is thus, strictly speaking, a world of women. Indeed, settled almost everywhere in the State, the Khasi, Garo and Jaintia societies are governed by a matrilineal tradition. In this system, only women own the land, and their inheritance goes to daughters and not to sons. Among the Khasis in particular, it is the khaddu, the youngest daughter of the family, who inherits the family heritage. It is by evoking the lives of three of these khaddu, a young woman, a student in her twenties, Bashisha, a more mature woman, Koïna, in her forties, and Helinda, in her sixties, that we will discover a society apart in an India dominated by men…