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Communications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

M. B. Hooker
M. B. Hooker
Affiliation:
Eliot College University of Kent at Canterbury

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Communications
Information
The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , August 1973 , pp. 661 - 662
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973

References

1Morrison, cf. Charles, “Munshis and Their Masters: The Organization of an Occupational Relationship in the Indian Legal System”, (1972) Journal of Asian Studies, XXXI, No. 2, pp. 309–328.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Known variously as “kerani” (clerk) or “petition writer.”

3 The terms “contact,” “expedite” are in common use.

4 Selangor Petition Writers Enactment No. 2/1957. Other state enactments which are substan tially similar in terms include the following: Kedah Petition Writers Enactment No. 75/1934; Johor Petition Writers Enactment No. 16/1938; Perlis Petition Writers Enactment No. 15/1354 and the Kelantan Petition Writers Enactment No. 23/1939.

5 Section 4 of the Selangor Petition Writers Enactment No. 2/1957.