Appropriation and Invention of Tradition
The East India Company and Hindu Law in Early Colonial Bengal
Seiten
2007
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-569048-4 (ISBN)
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-569048-4 (ISBN)
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The book, strongly grounded in primary sources, reconstructs the intellectual and legal history of early modern Bengal. It studies the subject of Hindu property rights and exploring the compendia prepared under the British. The author argues that there was hardly any link between the Smritis and the colonial Hindu laws .
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.
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.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.12.2007 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New Delhi |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 215 mm |
| Gewicht | 503 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-569048-6 / 0195690486 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-569048-4 / 9780195690484 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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