Parsi legal culture in colonial South Asia

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Mitra Sharafi

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This collection contains material relating to Parsi legal culture in British India and Burma, 19th-early 20th century. It includes rare published materials, along with unpublished archival items.

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

British Library
Saklat v. Bella

Privy Council Office, Downing Street, London (Please note: these records have been in transit to the National Archives, Kew, for over a decade.)
The Parsee Priest Defamation Case. Full Report of the Trial of Jamsetjee Sorabjee Madun in Her Majesty's High Court at Bombay, for defaming Nowrojee Shapoorjee Sunjana

British Library
The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act (India Act III of 1936)

British Library
Parsi Law embodying the Law of Marriage and Divorce and Inheritance and Succession applicable to Parsis in British India

Bodleian Law Library, University of Oxford
Forty Years Reminiscences of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay

Bodleian Law Library, University of Oxford
Forty Years Reminiscences of the Firm of Messrs. Wadia Ghandy & Co.

Bodleian Law Library, University of Oxford