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Collected Item: “1862-3 Government of India Bill to amend law for Parsees, with supporting papers, copies of further supporting papers dating from 1798”

Title

1862-3 Government of India Bill to amend law for Parsees, with supporting papers, copies of further supporting papers dating from 1798

Year

1862-3

Description

Papers contributing to the passage of Parsi personal law statutes of the 1860s (Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act XV of 1865, Parsi Intestate Succession Act XXI of 1865)

Author/s

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State Record Office (e.g. The National Archives (Kew))

Repository name:

British Library

Full archival reference/citation, eg: Smith to Grey, 10 November 1848, WCA KAB/GH Vol. 1/196 ref. 80

IOR/L/PJ/5/400

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British India

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Family

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Gender/Sexuality

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Zoroastrian
religion
divorce
annulment
inheritance
intestacy

Contributed by:

Mitra Sharafi

Contributor willing to be contacted for more information?

Yes

Contributor email address

mitra.sharafi@wisc.edu
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