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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Published in 1810, this work was one of the key translations of
texts that formed part of the law books of the Anglo-Indian civil
courts under the East India Company. A successor to the orientalist
and jurist Sir William Jones, Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765 1837)
had taught himself Sanskrit and became involved in studying and
trying to codify Hindu law to apply it in the civil law courts
where he held superior judicial positions. Here he translates two
medieval texts, Jimutavahana's Dayabhaga and part of
Vijnaneshwara's Mitakshara, which formalised an area of legal
theory, serving as the principal guides in, respectively, Bengal
and the rest of India for laws on inheritance until the Hindu
Succession Act of 1956. Despite errors later identified in the
translation, Colebrooke's work stands as an important scholarly
undertaking, reflecting his desire to promote knowledge of Hindu
law, culture and heritage throughout the English-speaking world.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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