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028			_a: Savera Book Distributors _b: 4754 Akarshan Bhawan, 23 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi. _c: 22-23/CRB/719 _d: 18/03/2023
082			_a342.540 SHA
100			_aSharafi, Mitra June.
245			_aLaw and identity in colonial South Asia _b : Parsi legal culture, 1772-1947. _c/ Mitra June Sharafi.
260			_a, New York _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2014
300			_axxiv, 343 pages _b : illustrations _c: 24cm.
365			_b595
520			_a"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"
650			_aHistory
650			_aLAW Constitutional
650			_aLAW Public
650			_aIndia History
700			_aMitra June Sharafi
942			_cBOOK
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