Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia write by Mitra Sharafi. This book was released on 2014-04-21. Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 seems to have done so earlier or in more pronounced ways than the Parsis.
Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia
Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia write by Mitra Sharafi. This book was released on 2014-04-21. Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Governing Islam
Governing Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governing Islam write by Julia Stephens. This book was released on 2018-06-21. Governing Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stephens argues that encounters between Islam and British colonial rule in South Asia were fundamental to the evolution of modern secularism.
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond write by Steven E. Lindquist. This book was released on 2013-12-01. Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America’s leading Sanskritists and historians of early India. Over the last four decades, the focus of his scholarship has been on the ascetic and legal traditions of India, but his work as both a researcher and a teacher extends beyond early Indian religion and literature. ‘Religion and Identity and South Asia and Beyond’ is a testament to that influence. The contributions in this volume, many by former students of Olivelle, are committed to linguistic and historical rigor, combined with sensitivity to how the study of Asia has been changing over the last several decades.
The Aga Khan Case
The Aga Khan Case - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aga Khan Case write by Teena Purohit. This book was released on 2012-10-31. The Aga Khan Case available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts throughout history. The story she tells of an Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe. The Aga Khan Case focuses on a nineteenth-century court case in Bombay that influenced how religious identity was defined in India and subsequently the British Empire. The case arose when a group of Indians known as the Khojas refused to pay tithes to the Aga Khan, a Persian nobleman and hereditary spiritual leader of the Ismailis. The Khojas abided by both Hindu and Muslim customs and did not identify with a single religion prior to the court’s ruling in 1866, when the judge declared them to be converts to Ismaili Islam beholden to the Aga Khan. In her analysis of the ginans, the religious texts of the Khojas that formed the basis of the judge’s decision, Purohit reveals that the religious practices they describe are not derivations of a Middle Eastern Islam but manifestations of a local vernacular one. Purohit suggests that only when we understand Islam as inseparable from the specific cultural milieus in which it flourishes do we fully grasp the meaning of this global religion.
