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Mitra Sharafi
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How the taboo on Hindu widow remarriage led to liberal abortion norms in colonial India
While many abortion cases in colonial India were those of Hindu widows, the colonial state rarely prosecuted them.
Mitra Sharafi
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Why the US can't claim to have been India's colonial cousin in its struggle against the British
Americans broke with Britain not as a colonised people, but as a group of overtaxed and underrepresented settlers who were themselves busily colonising others.
Mitra Sharafi
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Snoop Dogg feels the bite of Parsi legal culture
Since the nineteenth century, members of the Parsi community have turned to law to resolve religious issues. But the case of the American rapper is different.
Mitra Sharafi
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Mumbai school principal told to resign after being targeted by Hindutva website
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