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Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947 |
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Sharafi, Mitra (著)
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| Date | 2014 |
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| Pages | 343 |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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https://www.cambridge.org/
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| Location | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
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| Series | Studies in Legal History |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliation: University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. |
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| Abstract | This book explores the legal culture of the Parsis, or Zoroastrians, an ethno-religious community unusually invested in the colonial legal system of British India and Burma. Colonized peoples (including minorities) often tried to maintain collective autonomy and integrity by avoiding interaction with the state. The Parsis did the opposite. From the mid-nineteenth century until India's independence in 1947, Parsis became heavy users of colonial law, acting as lawyers, judges, litigants, lobbyists, and legislators. They de-Anglicized the law that governed them and enshrined in law their own distinctive models of the family and community by two routes: frequent intra-group litigation often managed by Parsi legal professionals in the areas of marriage, inheritance, religious trusts, and libel, and the creation of legislation that would become Parsi personal law. Other South Asian communities also turned to law, but none seem to have done so earlier or in more pronounced ways than the Parsis. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 1
Part I. Parsi Legal Culture
Using law: colonial Parsis go to court 37
Making law: two patterns 84
Part II. The Creation of Parsi Personal Law
The limits of English law : the Inheritance Acts 127
Reconfiguring male privilege: the Matrimonial Acts 165
The jury and intra-group control: the Parsi Chief Matrimonial Court 193
Part III. Beyond Personal Law
Entrusting the faith : religious trusts and the Parsi legal profession 239
Pure Parsi: libel, race, and group membership 274
Conclusion: law and identity 313
Appendix: legislation 317
Glossary 321
Selective Bibliography 325
Index 333 |
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| ISBN | 9781107047976 (hbc); 1107047978 |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947 by Mitra Sharafi="Going to Law": Reflections on Law, Religion, and Mitra Sharafi's Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia / Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers (評論)
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| Created date | 2025.03.17 |
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| Modified date | 2025.03.19 |
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