Law and identity in colonial South Asia : (Record no. 31693)
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| fixed length control field | 01470nam a22001697a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 181010b2014 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9788178244976 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 342.540 SHA-M |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sharafi, Mitra |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Law and identity in colonial South Asia : |
| Remainder of title | Parsi legal culture, 1772-1947 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Mitra Sharafi |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | India |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Permanent Black |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2014 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 343 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | INR |
| Price amount | 595.00. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | India |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | South Asia |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | 340 | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | General Stack (For lending) | 10/10/2018 | 595.00 | 342.540 SHA-M | 36655 | 13/07/2024 | 10/10/2018 | Books |