Research Catalog

Title

Trust matters : Parsi endowments in Mumbai and the horoscope of a city / Leilah Vevaina.

Author

Vevaina, Leilah, 1980-

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

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Details

Description

xii, 210 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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"--

Subject

• Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations > India > Mumbai
• Parsees > India > Mumbai > Charities
• Religious trusts > India > Mumbai
• Trusts and trustees > India > Mumbai > Religious aspects
• Capitalism > India > Mumbai > Religious aspects
• Capitalism > Social aspects > India > Mumbai
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
• HISTORY / Asia / South / India
• Capitalism > Religious aspects
• Capitalism > Social aspects
• Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
• Religious trusts
• India > Mumbai

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Inheritances -- In Perpetuity: The Trust and Timely Obligations -- Presents and Futures: The Trust and Obligation's Asymmetries -- No House, No Spouse: The Bombay Parsi Punchayet -- The Beneficiary, the Law, and Sacred Space -- From Excarnation to Ashes: Trust to Trust -- Awakening the "Dead Hand": Liquid and Solid Properties -- An Unsettled (Es)state.

ISBN

• 9781478025399
• 1478025395
• 9781478020578
• 1478020571
• 9781478027515 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023005406

OCLC

• on1382400172
• 1382400172
• SCSB-14653962

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library