Law and identity in colonial South Asia : Parsi legal culture, 1772-1947 / Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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 i...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharafi, Mitra June, 1974- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:Studies in legal history.
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107256545
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!