20 Stunning Images Show India's "Kingdom of Girls," Where Girls Really Do Run the World

20 Stunning Images Show India's "Kingdom of Girls," Where Girls Really Do Run the World: "Families in Khasi culture are matrilineal: Children take their mother's last name, the youngest daughter in the family gets the inheritance and men move into their mother-in-law's home after marriage.

"To disrespect a woman here is to harm society," said Karolin Klüppel, a Berlin-based photographer whose latest series focuses on Khasi girls and young women, in an interview with Mic.

The result is a society where girls seem instilled with a remarkable sense of self-confidence from birth. Perhaps the rest of the world should take note.

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