{"product_id":"ownership-and-inheritance-in-sanskrit-jurisprudence","title":"Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence","description":"\u003cp\u003eOwnership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence provides an account of various theories of ownership (svatva) and inheritance (d=aya) in Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dharma's=astra). 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 (M=im=a.ms=a) and logic (Ny=aya) 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 Dharma's=astra 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher T. Fleming","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43577580159037,"sku":"9780198852377","price":205.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780198852377.jpg?v=1788650807","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/ownership-and-inheritance-in-sanskrit-jurisprudence","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}