Leilah Vevaina
Biographic Data
| ID | 188440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leilah Vevaina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leilah |
| FAMILY NAME | Vevaina |
| SIGNATURE | VEVAINA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2198-3259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Trust Matters
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 infrastr…
Mergers and Legal Fictions
Within India's system of plural personal laws, the rights of women in matters of marriage, divorce, and inheritance are solely based on their natal communal identity. While we see many examples of women appealing to courts to secure or improve their rights vis-à-vis personal laws, marriage outside the community has often occluded these rights completely. Marital property, inheritance, and even access to sacred space are in a gray zone of differen…
Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South
Conceptualising giving as a broad category encompassing philanthropy, charity, humanitarian aid and gifts, this Special Issue brings together researchers whose ethnographic and theoretical work examine different forms of transnational giving in the historical and contemporary Global South. In this Issue we contend that the Global South should not be seen as a passive recipient of these transnational welfare-oriented giving but as the site where t…
Trusts on the monsoon winds
Trade brought the Parsis to Hong Kong and a small group remained and settled after the British took over the island in 1841. Profits from the China trade made millionaires of several of Bombay's 'illustrious' philanthropists and helped to build some of this city's founding infrastructure. The ties between the two colonial ports were never severed, and recent years have seen a resurgence of funds transferred from Parsi charitable trusts in Hong Ko…
Two Fire Temples and a Metro
Mumbai is one of the world’s megacities often depicted through its intensely crowded suburban trains and hours-long traffic jams. The city is now in the midst of a huge transport infrastructural scheme to build a north-south underground metro seen as vital to relieve the congestion of the colonial-era commuter train, which carries seven million passengers every day. Yet, the backlash against the construction has been virulent, from environmental …
The plot to disembed
Good Deeds
Parsis (Indian Zoroastrians), a small traditionally endogamous group, are well known in India for their philanthropic giving. The Parsis of Mumbai are beneficiaries of hundreds of Parsi public charitable trusts today, and this article will show how trusts, as particular forms of giving, establish perpetual communal obligation connecting the past and present. It will show how the circulation of personal assets through customary inheritance within …
She's Come Undone
Parsis (Indian Zoroastrians), like many religious groups, manage their ritual spaces and funds with charitable trusts. High numbers of intermarriage have caused much debate over who counts as a Parsi within the community, and more attention is being paid to women and their rights of access. After a local trust in Valsad, Gujarat, barred intermarried women from entering Zoroastrian sacred spaces, Goolrukh Gupta, an intermarried Parsi woman, sued h…
Good Deeds
Parsis (Indian Zoroastrians), a small traditionally endogamous group, are well known in India for their philanthropic giving. The Parsis of Mumbai are beneficiaries of hundreds of Parsi public charitable trusts today, and this article will show how trusts, as particular forms of giving, establish perpetual communal obligation connecting the past and present. It will show how the circulation of personal assets through customary inheritance within …
She's Come Undone
Parsis (Indian Zoroastrians), like many religious groups, manage their ritual spaces and funds with charitable trusts. High numbers of intermarriage have caused much debate over who counts as a Parsi within the community, and more attention is being paid to women and their rights of access. After a local trust in Valsad, Gujarat, barred intermarried women from entering Zoroastrian sacred spaces, Goolrukh Gupta, an intermarried Parsi woman, sued h…
Two Fire Temples and a Metro
Mumbai is one of the world’s megacities often depicted through its intensely crowded suburban trains and hours-long traffic jams. The city is now in the midst of a huge transport infrastructural scheme to build a north-south underground metro seen as vital to relieve the congestion of the colonial-era commuter train, which carries seven million passengers every day. Yet, the backlash against the construction has been virulent, from environmental …
Good Deeds
Parsis (Indian Zoroastrians), a small traditionally endogamous group, are well known in India for their philanthropic giving. The Parsis of Mumbai are beneficiaries of hundreds of Parsi public charitable trusts today, and this article will show how trusts, as particular forms of giving, establish perpetual communal obligation connecting the past and present. It will show how the circulation of personal assets through customary inheritance within …
She's Come Undone
Parsis (Indian Zoroastrians), like many religious groups, manage their ritual spaces and funds with charitable trusts. High numbers of intermarriage have caused much debate over who counts as a Parsi within the community, and more attention is being paid to women and their rights of access. After a local trust in Valsad, Gujarat, barred intermarried women from entering Zoroastrian sacred spaces, Goolrukh Gupta, an intermarried Parsi woman, sued h…
Two Fire Temples and a Metro
Mumbai is one of the world’s megacities often depicted through its intensely crowded suburban trains and hours-long traffic jams. The city is now in the midst of a huge transport infrastructural scheme to build a north-south underground metro seen as vital to relieve the congestion of the colonial-era commuter train, which carries seven million passengers every day. Yet, the backlash against the construction has been virulent, from environmental …
The plot to disembed
Trust Matters
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 infrastr…
Mergers and Legal Fictions
Within India's system of plural personal laws, the rights of women in matters of marriage, divorce, and inheritance are solely based on their natal communal identity. While we see many examples of women appealing to courts to secure or improve their rights vis-à-vis personal laws, marriage outside the community has often occluded these rights completely. Marital property, inheritance, and even access to sacred space are in a gray zone of differen…
Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South
Conceptualising giving as a broad category encompassing philanthropy, charity, humanitarian aid and gifts, this Special Issue brings together researchers whose ethnographic and theoretical work examine different forms of transnational giving in the historical and contemporary Global South. In this Issue we contend that the Global South should not be seen as a passive recipient of these transnational welfare-oriented giving but as the site where t…
Trusts on the monsoon winds
Trade brought the Parsis to Hong Kong and a small group remained and settled after the British took over the island in 1841. Profits from the China trade made millionaires of several of Bombay's 'illustrious' philanthropists and helped to build some of this city's founding infrastructure. The ties between the two colonial ports were never severed, and recent years have seen a resurgence of funds transferred from Parsi charitable trusts in Hong Ko…
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