Browsing School of Law by Author "Shah, P"
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Are there Asian diasporic laws in Britain? Reconsidering the presuppositions of legal pluralism
Shah, P (Il Mulino publishing house, 2020-06-08)The concept of ‘Asian laws in Britain’ was proposed in the 1990s by a leading scholar of South Asian laws, Werner Menski, within the larger framework of legal pluralism. This article explores the reasons why it might be ... -
Attitudes to polygamy in English law
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California Dreamin’ on Caste
Shah, P (Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University, 2023-06-15)This comment picks out the fictional aspect of the putative social structure — the caste system — and discrimination consequent to the perception that a person belongs to it, as two dimensions that make the California's ... -
Caste in a new light: Jati in British multiculturalism
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Caste studies today: Imaginary victims and perpetrators
Shah, P (2023-02-01)Starting with an individual report in a leading British periodical of higher education, this article fans outwards to show how the contemporary field of caste studies reflects the degeneracy of its methods and claims. ... -
Critiquing the Western Account of India Studies within a Comparative Science of Cultures
Shah, P (2014-01-01) -
Culture in the throes of law
Shah, P (Editoriale Scientifica, 2019) -
Cultures of memory in The Kashmir Files
Shah, P (Indian Alternatives, 2023-05-28)This comment offers a reflection on Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s film, The Kashmir Files (TKF), released in early 2022. It links the film to the conception of ‘cultures of memory’ in the work of Indian intellectual D. Venkat ... -
Cultures of memory in The Kashmir Files
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Dissimulating on Caste in British Law
SHAH, P (Palgrave, 2016-12-24) -
Distorting minority laws? Religious diversity and European legal systems
SHAH, P (Routledge, 2016) -
Globalisation and the challenge of Asian legal transplants in Europe
Shah, P (National University of Singapore, 2005) -
Immigration Law
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Sacerdotal violence and the caste system: The long shadow of Christian-Orientalism
Shah, P (Taylor and Francis, 2018-03-09)© 2018 selection and editorial matter, D. Venkat Rao individual chapters, the contributors. The caste system is one of the most prominent global images of Indian culture and society. However, given multiple accounts and ... -
Secularism's threat to tradition: A reading of Europe, India and the Limits of Secularism
Shah, P (2019-10-02)© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article offers a reading of Jakob De Roover's important book, Europe, India and the Limits of Secularism (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016). ... -
Shari‘a in the West: Colonial consciousness in a context of normative competition
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Trans-jurisdictional marriage and family reunification for refugees in the United Kingdom
Shah, P (Seckin, 2010-07) -
Transnational Hindu law adoptions: recognition and treatment in Britain
Shah, P (Cambridge University Press, 2009)This article examines how the adoption of children under Hindu law in India is regarded by British private international law and immigration law. Through an analysis of case law, it focuses particularly on how British ... -
A weak defence of an indefensible caste law
Shah, P (2016-03-01)