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The main sources for an understanding of classical Hindu law are
the Sanskrit treatises on religious and legal duties, known as the
Dharma stras. In this collection of his major studies in the field,
Ludo Rocher presents analytical and interpretive essays on a wide
range of topics, from general themes such as the nature of Hindu
law and Anglo-Hindu law to technical matters including word studies
and text criticism. Rocher's deep engagement with the language and
worldview of the authors in the Dharma stra tradition yields
distinctive and corrective contributions to the field, which are
informed by knowledge both of the Indian grammatical tradition and
of Roman and civil law. Davis's introduction presents an
interpretative account of Rocher's many contributions to the field,
organized around the themes that recur in his work, and examines
his key advances, both methodological and substantive. Comparisons
and contrasts between Rocher's ideas and those of his Indological
colleagues serve to place him in the context of a scholarly
tradition, while Rocher's fundamental view that the Dharma stra is
first and foremost a scholarly and scholastic tradition, rather
than a practical legal one, is also explored. This invaluable
collection serves both as summary review of the ideas of Rocher, a
leading authority in the field, and as a critical evaluation of the
impact of these ideas on the present study of law and Indology.
For thirty years in India at the cusp of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an administrator
and scholar with the East India Company. The Making of Western
Indology explains and evaluates Colebrooke's role as the founder of
modern Indology. The book discusses how Colebrooke embodies the
significant passage from the speculative yearnings attendant on
eighteenth-century colonial expansion, to the professional,
transnational ethos of nineteenth-century intellectual life and
scholarly enquiry. It covers his career with the East India
Company, from a young writer to member of the supreme council and
theorist of the Bengal government. Highlighting how his
unprecedented familiarity with a broad range of literature
established him as the leading scholar of Sanskrit and president of
the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, it shows how Colebrooke went on to
found the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and
set standards for western Indology. Written by renowned academics
in the field of Indology, and drawing on new sources, this
biography is a useful contribution to the reassessment of Oriental
studies that is currently taking place.
For thirty years in India at the cusp of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an administrator
and scholar with the East India Company. The Making of Western
Indology explains and evaluates Colebrooke's role as the founder of
modern Indology. The book discusses how Colebrooke embodies the
significant passage from the speculative yearnings attendant on
eighteenth-century colonial expansion, to the professional,
transnational ethos of nineteenth-century intellectual life and
scholarly enquiry. It covers his career with the East India
Company, from a young writer to member of the supreme council and
theorist of the Bengal government. Highlighting how his
unprecedented familiarity with a broad range of literature
established him as the leading scholar of Sanskrit and president of
the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, it shows how Colebrooke went on to
found the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and
set standards for western Indology. Written by renowned academics
in the field of Indology, and drawing on new sources, this
biography is a useful contribution to the reassessment of Oriental
studies that is currently taking place.
This is a translation of a 12th century Sanskrit legal text, with the original text. The Dayabhaga was one of the most important texts in the history of Indian law. It is important because the British elevated it to such prominence in their new colony in the early 19th century. This text was taken as the authority on inheritance and significant aspects of family law for the eastern Indian region. The case law and scholarship that surround this text have shaped Indian personal law right up to the present day. Until now, there has been only one very inadequate English translation of this text (now 190 years old) - virtually without reference to the Sanskrit. This new translation will make this crucial text genuinely avaliable to those without Sanskrit for the first time.
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