Vevaina Leilah Vevaina

Trust Matters (eBook, PDF)

Parsi Endowments in Mumbai and the Horoscope of a City

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Produktbeschreibung

Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, 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 influence 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478027515
• Artikelnr.: 72418254

Autorenporträt

Leilah Vevaina

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Inheritances  1
1. In Perpetuity: The Trust and Timely Obligations  27
2. Presents and Futures: The Trust and Obligation’s Asymmetries  52
3. No House, No Spouse: The Bombay Parsi Punchayet  75
4. The Beneficiary, the Law, and Sacred Space  105
5. From Excarnation to Ashes: Trust to Trust  128
6. Awakening the “Dead Hand”: Liquid and Solid Properties  146
Conclusion: An Unsettled (E)state  167
Notes  175
References  185
Index  201