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Fleming, Christopher T.

 
9780198852377: Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0198852371 ISBN 13 : 9780198852377
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence provides an account of various theories of ownership (svatva) and inheritance (dāya) in Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dharmaśāstra). It examines the evolution of different juridical models of inheritance--in which families held property in trusts or in tenancies-in-common--against the backdrop of related developments in the philosophical understanding of ownership in the Sanskrit text-traditions of hermeneutics (Mīmāṃsā) and logic (Nyāya) respectively.

Christopher T. Fleming reconstructs medieval Sanskrit theories of property and traces the emergence of various competing schools of Sanskrit jurisprudence during the early modern period (roughly fifteenth-nineteenth centuries) in Bihar, Bengal, and Varanasi. Fleming attends to the ways in which ideas from these schools of jurisprudence shaped the codification of Anglo-Hindu personal law by administrators of the British East India Company during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While acknowledging the limitations of colonial conceptions of Dharmaśāstra as positive law, this study argues for far greater continuity between pre-colonial and colonial Sanskrit jurisprudence than accepted previously. It charts the transformation of the Hindu law of inheritance--through precedent and statute--over the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christopher T. Fleming is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198852371
ISBN 13 
9780198852377
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
270
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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