Appropriation and Invention of Tradition
The East India Company and Hindu Law in Early Colonial Bengal
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 20 December 2007
- ISBN 9780195690484
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 215x140x23 mm
- Weight 503 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The beginning of Anglo-Hindu jurisprudence was occasioned by decisive developments in the cultural, intellectual, and legal history of India. This book deals with the appropriation of the Dharmasastras - a powerful written tradition - and its codification, in the construction of Hindu law. It explores the significant connections between this process of formalization and the consolidation of the empire in Bengal. Investigating the intricate and dynamic links between power and
knowledge in the evolution of institutions under colonial rule, this book underlines innovative ways of looking at the legal history of colonial India.
Long description:
This book, strongly grounded in primary sources, makes an important contribution to the intellectual history of early modern Bengal. It brings to light the complex interpenetration of diverse interests, opinions and ideologies articulated by various social groups implicated in the process of colonization on the lines of Ranajit Guha's work on property relations in Bengal and Radhika Singha's work on law. There is no comparable work specifically on the subject of Hindu property
rights and how these came to be perceived or interpreted in early modern Bengal. The author explores the so-called compendia prepared under British auspices and argues that there was hardly any link between the Smritis and the laws. The latter were determined almost entirely by changing British policy
with regard to land revenue and that many of the positive features of Hindu custom like women's rights to property were undermined in the process.
Table of Contents:
Chapter I The Pre-Colonial Tradition Of The Dharmasastras;
Chapter II Hindu Law Of Property And Inheritance And The East India Company Officials, 1698-1772; Chapter III Vivadarnava-Setu And The Code Of Gentoo Laws;
Chapter IV Towards A Second Code: The Response To New Imperatives;
Chapter V Vivada-Bhangarnava And Digest Of Hindu Laws; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography
