# Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence - Portail Universitaire du droit

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## Parution

- **ISBN** : 978-0-198-85237-7
- **Éditeur** : Oxford University Press

## Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur
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.
Christopher T. Fleming is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford
 
Sommaire
List of FiguresIntroduction1:Mīmāṃsā and the Mitākṣarā School of Jurisprudence2:Navya-Nyāya and the Maithila and Gauḍa Schools of Jurisprudence3:The Bhāṭṭa School of Benares4:Anglo-Indian Schools of Hindu LawMarket Governance, (Neo)Liberalism, and the Future of Dharmaśāstra in the 21st CenturyGlossary of Sanskrit TermsBibliography


## Métadonnées

- **Catégorie** : Parutions
- **Publié** : 2021-02-19

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