Fatima's inheritance: Law, Islam, and gendered archive-making in India's early modern global connections.
Sometime around the first half of the seventeenth century, a Muslim woman known by the name Fatima brought her slaves to court over an inheritance dispute in the Indian port city of Surat. Tracing Fatima's lawsuit and its many afterlives through the study of the transmission of its sole surviving re...
| Publicado en: | Past & Present Vol. 266; no. 1; pp. 40 - 75 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2025
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