Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia

Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947

Nonfiction, History, Asian, India, Reference & Language, Law
Cover of the book Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia by Mitra Sharafi, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Mitra Sharafi ISBN: 9781139862332
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: April 21, 2014
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Mitra Sharafi
ISBN: 9781139862332
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: April 21, 2014
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

This book explores the legal culture of the Parsis, or Zoroastrians, an ethnoreligious community unusually invested in the colonial legal system of British India and Burma. Rather than trying to maintain collective autonomy and integrity by avoiding interaction with the state, the Parsis sank deep into the colonial legal system itself. From the late eighteenth century until India's independence in 1947, they 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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This book explores the legal culture of the Parsis, or Zoroastrians, an ethnoreligious community unusually invested in the colonial legal system of British India and Burma. Rather than trying to maintain collective autonomy and integrity by avoiding interaction with the state, the Parsis sank deep into the colonial legal system itself. From the late eighteenth century until India's independence in 1947, they 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.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book The Ottoman Road to War in 1914 by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book Management of Hematologic Malignancies by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book Planetary Rings by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book The Finite-Difference Modelling of Earthquake Motions by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book The Epilepsy Prescriber's Guide to Antiepileptic Drugs by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book Labour Internationalism in the Global South by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book Contact Languages by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book Birds and Habitat by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 1, Industrialisation, 1700–1860 by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book Deep Brain Stimulation Management by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book The School of Oriental and African Studies by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century by Mitra Sharafi
Cover of the book Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus by Mitra Sharafi
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy