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Loyal Opposition: Minorities and State Law

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Mitra Sharafi. 2014. Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947. New York: Cambridge University Press, also 2017 Ranikhet, India: Permanent Black. Pp. xxiii + 343.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Assaf Likhovski
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This essay on Mitra Sharafi's Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947 (2014) focuses on the relationship between certain minorities and the law of the state. It seeks to expand the discussion found in Sharafi's book in three directions: first, by comparing the attitude of Parsis in South Asia to the law of the state with the attitude of German Jewish immigrants in mandatory Palestine and Israel to state law; second, by asking whether the Parsis' embracing of state law was linked to their economic success; and, finally, by pointing to the nature of law itself as a “minority discourse.”

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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , Fall 2017 , pp. 1224 - 1230
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2017 

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