Trust matters: Parsi endowments in Mumbai and the horoscope of a city
"Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of over 12 million, Mumbai's Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in the city due to its network of public charitable trusts. In Trust Matters Leilah Vevaina explores the dynamics and consequences of this conjunction of re...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham London
Duke University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mumbai
/ Parsis
/ Charitable trust
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| Further subjects: | B
Religious trusts (India) (Mumbai)
B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social B Parsees (India) (Mumbai) Charities B Capitalism Social aspects (India) (Mumbai) B Trusts and trustees (India) (Mumbai) Religious aspects B Capitalism (India) (Mumbai) Religious aspects B Asia / South / HISTORY / India B Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (India) (Mumbai) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Vevaina, Leilah, 1980-: Trust matters. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2023. - 9781478027515 |
| Summary: | "Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of over 12 million, Mumbai's Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in the city due to its network of public charitable trusts. In Trust Matters Leilah Vevaina explores the dynamics and consequences of this conjunction of religion and capital, as well as the activities of giving, disputing, living, and dying it enables. As she shows, communal trusts are the legal infrastructure behind formal religious giving and ritual in urban India that influences communal life. Vevaina proposes the trusts as a horoscope of the city-a constellation of housing, temples, and other spaces providing possible futures. She explores the charitable trust as a technology of time, originating in the nineteenth century, one that structures intergenerational obligations for Mumbai's Parsis, connecting past and present, the worldly and the sacred. By approaching Mumbai through the legal mechanism of the trust and the people who live within its bounds as well as those who challenge or support it, Vevaina offers a new pathway into exploring property, religion, and kinship in the urban global South"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1478025395 |