Author: Arthur SteelePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Law and Custom of Hindoo Castes Within the Dekhun Provinces Subject to the Presidency of Bombay, Chiefly Affecting Civil Suits
Author: Arthur SteeleThe Law and Custom of Hindoo Castes Within the Dekhun Provinces Subject to the Presidency of Bombay
Author: Arthur SteelePublisher:
ISBN: 9780461797657
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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Summary of the Law and Custom of Hindoo Castes Within the Dekhun Provinces Subject to the Presidency of Bombay,
Author: Arthur SteeleLaw and Custom of Hindoo Castes Within the Dekhun Provinces Subject to the Presidency of Bombay, Chiefly Affecting Civil Suits (new Ed.).
Author: The Law and Custom of Hindoo Castes Within the Dekhun Provinces Subject to the Presidency of Bombay, Chiefly Affecting Civil Suits
Author: Arthur SteeleEthnography (Castes and Tribes)
Author: Athelstane BainesPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112383885
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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.
Law and the Economy in Colonial India
Author: Tirthankar RoyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022638778X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India’s economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enforcement and secure property rights. But it’s widely acknowledged that India’s legal infrastructure is in urgent need of reform, plagued by problems, including slow enforcement of contracts and land laws that differ from state to state. How has this situation arisen, and what can boost business confidence and encourage long-run economic growth? Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy trace the beginnings of the current Indian legal system to the years of British colonial rule. They show how India inherited an elaborate legal system from the British colonial administration, which incorporated elements from both British Common Law and indigenous institutions. In the case of property law, especially as it applied to agricultural land, indigenous laws and local political expediency were more influential in law-making than concepts borrowed from European legal theory. Conversely, with commercial law, there was considerable borrowing from Europe. In all cases, the British struggled with limited capacity to enforce their laws and an insufficient knowledge of the enormous diversity and differentiation within Indian society. A disorderly body of laws, not conducive to production and trade, evolved over time. Roy and Swamy’s careful analysis not only sheds new light on the development of legal institutions in India, but also offers insights for India and other emerging countries through a look at what fosters the types of institutions that are key to economic growth.
Ethnography
Author: Jervoise Athelstane BainesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Provincial Politics and Indian Nationalism
Author: Gordon JohnsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521619653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This is the first book to stress the need for study of regional and local politics as an integral part of the history of the Congress.