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Dharmaśāstra became influential in modern colonial India history, when they were formulated by early British colonial administrators to be the law of the land for all non-Muslims (Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs) in the Indian subcontinent, after Sharia set by Emperor Aurangzeb, was already accepted as the law for Muslims in colonial India.
Thinking of Dharmasastra as a legal code and of its authors as lawgivers is thus a serious misunderstanding of its history". [69] Other scholars have expressed the same view, based on epigraphical, archaeological and textual evidence from medieval Hindu kingdoms in Gujarat , Kerala and Tamil Nadu , while acknowledging that Manusmriti was ...
The History of Dharmaśāstra, with a subtitle "Ancient and Medieval Religious and Civil Law in India", is a monumental seven-volume work consisting of around 6,500 pages. It was authored by renowned Indologist Pandurang Vaman Kane. The first volume of the work was published in 1930 and the final one in 1962.
Nāradasmṛti is a part of the Dharmaśāstras, an Indian literary tradition that serves as a collection of legal maxims relating to the topic of dharma. [1] This text is purely juridical in character in that it focuses solely on procedural and substantive law. [1]
He is known for his magnum opus, History of Dharmaśāstra (1930–62), a five-volume treatise on law in ancient and medieval India. [5] [10] He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, upper house of the Indian parliament from 1953 to 1964. [1] Kane initially studied and taught Sanskrit, but later obtained degrees in law and practiced before the ...
The Apastamba tradition may be from south India, possibly near where modern Andhra Pradesh is between Godavari and Krishna rivers, but this is not certain. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The verse 2.17.17 of the Apastamba Dharmasutra mentions a practice of "northerners" but it in unclear what "north" means in the context it is used. [ 8 ]
Vashishta Dharmasutra is an ancient legal text, and one of the few Dharma-related treatises which has survived into the modern era. This Dharmasūtra (300–100 BCE) forms an independent text and other parts of the Kalpasūtra, that is Shrauta and Grihya-sutras are missing. [1]
Dharmasastra and juridical literature (A History of Indian literature. Vol. 4, Scientific and technical literature) (1973) Essays in Classical and Modern Hindu Law: Dharmasastra and Related Ideas v. 1 (Asian Studies) (1976) Studies in the New Testament: Glimpses of the Legal and Social Presuppositions of the Authors v. 1 (1977)