"maika" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1977, Kenneth David, editor, The New Wind: Changing Identities in South Asia, page 279:",
          "text": "A woman typically reports feeling much better after visiting her maika, and it is sometimes thought that the health of her children is improved by their visiting their mother's brother's house.",
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          "ref": "1996, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, page 86:",
          "text": "These images reflect a married woman's fond, idealized recollections of her maikā, where she was relatively free and pampered and which she perceives as a land of (emotional) wealth and prosperity.",
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          "ref": "1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 72:",
          "text": "This was the last indulgence she was permitted. It was meant to soften the severing of all connections with her maika.",
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        "A woman's maternal village: the place where she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage."
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        "(India) A woman's maternal village: the place where she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage."
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          "ref": "1977, Kenneth David, editor, The New Wind: Changing Identities in South Asia, page 279:",
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          "ref": "1996, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, page 86:",
          "text": "These images reflect a married woman's fond, idealized recollections of her maikā, where she was relatively free and pampered and which she perceives as a land of (emotional) wealth and prosperity.",
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          "text": "This was the last indulgence she was permitted. It was meant to soften the severing of all connections with her maika.",
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        "(India) A woman's maternal village: the place where she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage."
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