Appropriation and Invention of Tradition

The East India Company and Hindu Law in Early Colonial Bengal
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-808378-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 285 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 312 g

This book, strongly grounded in primary sources, makes an important contribution to the legal and 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. There is no comparable work specifically on Hindu property rights that explores 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 many of the positive features of Hindu custom like women's rights to property were undermined in the process.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhattacharya-Panda, Nandini

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Nandini Bhattacharya-Panda is Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata.