Ownership and inheritance in Sanskrit jurisprudence / Christopher T. Fleming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleming, Christopher Thomas, 1988- author.

Series:

Oxford Oriental monographs.

Oxford Oriental Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inheritance and succession (Hindu law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence' provides an account of various theories of ownership (svatva) and inheritance (daya) in Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dharmasastra). 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 (Mimamsa) and logic (Nyaya) 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.

Contents:

Mīmāṃsā and the Mitākṣarā School of Jurisprudence

Navya-Nyāya and the Maithila and Gau.da Schools of Jurisprudence

The Bhāṭṭa a School of Benares

Anglo-Indian Schools of Hindu Law Market Governance, (Neo)Liberalism, and the Future of Dharmaśāstra in the 21st Century

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-259354-4

0-19-188683-1

0-19-259353-6