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... are the writings and the views of colonial administrator James Henry Nelson on the lack of a Brahmanical Hindu law in the Madras Presidency. Nelson's controversial viewpoints brought him into confrontation with Justice Lewis Charles Innes, a Madras High Court judge. The elements of this confrontation lays bare...

...Samyak Ghosh Abstract This article situates the court of the Tungkhungia kings of Brahmaputra Valley (1680–1830), in present day Assam, in the space of courtly convergence and response in eighteenth-century South Asia. It studies a particular moment in the Tungkhungia royal court (1714–44) when...

...Anuj Bhuwania Bhuwania’s article studies the politics of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in contemporary India. PIL is a unique jurisdiction initiated by the Indian Supreme Court in the aftermath of the Emergency of 1975-77. Bhuwania locates the history of PIL in India’s postcolonial predicament...

... pending the appointment of a replacement for Justice Military Courts (Retd.) Fakhruddin Ebrahim when he was appointed Gover- nor of Sind in April 1989. EXCERPTS FROM AMPESlY INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON Discussions...

...Tracy Pintchman Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Courting Krishna on the Banks of the Ganges: Gender and Power in a Hindu Women’s Ritual Tradition TRACY PINTCHMAN A good amount of contemporary postcolonial where.3 Here, however, I wish to focus...

...Eric Schewe This article examines the consolidation of a regime of government-subsidized wheat bread in Egypt during the Second World War, in tandem with the development of the Egyptian state of emergency and a military courts system. It investigates how landowner resistance and fertilizer...

...Audrey Truschke This article presents the first in-depth textual analysis of the Razmnamah ( Book of War ), the Persian translation of the Mahabharata sponsored by the Mughal emperor Akbar in the late sixteenth century. I argue that the Razmnamah was a central literary work in the Mughal court...

... of the recent Sikh past is reflected in the works of Ratan Singh Bhangu, the author of the hagiographic work Gur Panth Prakash , and Ram Sukh Rao, the court historian of the Sikh kingdom of Kapurthala. The works on these Punjabi authors reveal anxieties about how the recent past would be recorded and understood...

...Saumya Saxena Shah Bano was sixty-three years old when her husband divorced her in 1978. He refused to pay maintenance to her beyond a period of three months ( iddat ), claiming his obligation extended no further than three menstrual cycles of his wife’s. While the court decided in favor...

...Carl W. Ernst The Mogul court poet Fayzi (AD 1547–95) is credited with the composition of the Shariq al-ma`rifa , a Persian text offering an interpretation of Indian philosophy drawing on Sufi and Neoplatonic (Illuminationist) terms and categories. This article examines how the author subordinates...

... in the court of the second Nizam of Hyderabad, Nizam `Ali Khan (r. 1762–1803), and the third Nizam, Sikandar Jah (r. 1803–29), as well as being mistress to their prime ministers of Iranian descent. She was one of the first women poets to compile a full divan of Urdu ghazals and was adept at music and dance...

...Kaveh Louis Hemmat The Khatay'namah , or Book of China , a description of Chinese government and society in the mid-Ming period, written by a Central Asian merchant and presented to the Ottoman court in 1516, is evidence that the advent of more rationalized, centralized, and bureaucratic forms...

... interconnections with a wider Ottoman-Turkish musical culture that has sustained historical traces in Turkish synagogues today. Focusing primarily on a Jewish musical form with close links to Ottoman court music, the Maftirim repertoire, the study investigates the changing urban landscape of intercommunal music...

... and the problems of translation facing Muslims in colonial courts. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Translating Colonial Fortunes: Dilemmas of Inheritance in Muslim and English Laws across a Nineteenth-­Century Diaspora Michael Gilsenan Diasporic Inheritance across Colonial Spaces...

... principles and that continues to the present day. I then examine the call by scholars and activists to separate religion and state in the Muslim world. Against this backdrop, I analyze the Bangladesh Supreme Court's decision in 2001 to declare the fatwa unconstitutional. I investigate to what extent...