Author: Jamsetjee Sorabjee MadunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parsees
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Parsee Priest Defamation Case
Author: Jamsetjee Sorabjee MadunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parsees
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia
Author: Mitra SharafiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139868063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
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.
Slandering the Sacred
Author: J. Barton ScottPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022682490X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
"Although blasphemy is as old as religion itself, its history has begun a new chapter in recent years. Slanders of the sacred are everywhere, as in the highly visible Charlie Hebdo case, with "religion" sometimes appearing as little more than a membrane for giving and receiving offense. Where some explain the contemporary preoccupation with blasphemy by pointing to the interconnectedness of twenty-first-century media, J. Barton Scott argues that we need to look deeper into the past at the colonial-era infrastructures that continue to shape our globalized world. Slandering the Sacred examines one such powerful and widely influential legal infrastructure: Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code. What would it look like to take Section 295A as a text in, of, and for religion-a connective tissue interlinking multiple religious worlds? To answer this question, Scott explores the cultural, intellectual, and legal pre-history of this law, moving between colonial India and imperial Britain as well as between secular law and modern religion. Section 295A reveals a set of problems with no easy solution. It places a chill on free speech, extends the power of the state over civil society, and exacerbates the culture of religious controversy that it was designed to fix. The legislators who enacted the law foresaw the damage it could do and they enacted it anyway, as a half-despairing measure to curb injurious speech. Their problems are still our problems. The twenty-first century has compounded modernity's free-speech headache. Section 295A opens a useful window onto these problems precisely because it is a problem, too. Its history is a tale about the afterlives of the holy dead, the legal definition of the anglophone category "religion," and the transmissibility of outrage as bureaucratized affect"--
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office
Author: Great Britain. India Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Harvey-Nariman Libel Case, with a Brief History of the Development Department, Important Extracts from "Mears Committee" Report Leading Upto Prosecution, Court Proceedings Including the Statement of Defence, Judgment in Full, with Press Comments, Illustrations Etc
Author: S. M. SurveyorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mumbai (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office
Author: India Office LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Catalogue raisonné of the Arabic, Hindosteni, Persian and Turkish MSS. in the Mulla Firuz Library
Author: RehatsekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial libraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Catalogue Raisonné of the Arabic, Hindostani, Persian, and Turkish Mss. in the Mulla Firuz Library
Author: Mulla Firuz LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Imagining the Public in Modern South Asia
Author: Brannon IngramPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317234294
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of ‘the public’ has come under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To better understand this current conjuncture, we need a fuller understanding of the specifically South Asian history of the term. To that end, this book surveys the modern Indian ‘public’ across multiple historical contexts and sites, with contributions from leading scholars of South Asia in anthropology, history, literary studies and religious studies. As a whole, this volume highlights the complex genealogies of the public in the Indian subcontinent during the colonial and postcolonial eras, showing in particular how British notions of ‘the public’ intersected with South Asian forms of publicity. Two principal methods or approaches—the genealogical and the typological—have characterised this scholarship. This book suggests, more in the mode of genealogy, that the category of the public has been closely linked to the sub-continental history of political liberalism. Also discussed is how the studies collected in this volume challenge some of liberalism’s key presuppositions about the public and its relationship to law and religion.
