(1) Under the Chhota Nagpur Tenancy Act, 1908, a khunt kattidar is the founder or the male descendant in the male line of the founder of the village in which are situated his khunt-katti lands. Mundarikhunt-kattidar means a Mundari, who has acquired a right to hold jungle land for the purpose of bringing suitable portions thereof under cultivation by himself or by male members of his family,and includes, (a) the heir male in the male line of any such Mundari when they are in possession of such land or have any subsisting title thereto,and (b) as regards any portions of such land which has remained continuously in the possession of any such Mundari and his descendants in the male line, such descendants.. The act is discriminatory towards women as it excludes them from the inheritance rights on ancestral properties. Sections 7, 8 and 76 of the Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act is considered as violative of the right to equality and the right to life. As far back as 1982,Madhu Kishwar (editor of the magazine Manushi) raised the common issue of parity between female and male tribal members in the matter of intestate succession.