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Mitra Sharafi

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
· Aug 10, 2020 · 11:30 am
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
· Jul 04, 2016 · 08:20 am
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
· Jul 03, 2015 · 10:30 am