 This was the case that made its way through the Indian court system and which she won.She is the founder-director of Pallikoodam school (formerly Corpus Christi High School) at Kalathilpady, a suburb of Kottayam town in the state of Kerala.Her daughter is the Man Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy

The women of Mary Roy's Syrian Christian community could not inherit property because of the Travancore Succession Act of 1916.