A Dharma Reader : Classical Indian Law / Patrick Olivelle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olivelle, Patrick, Author.

Series:

Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dharma--Early works to 1800.

Dharma.

Sanskrit literature--Translations into English.

Sanskrit literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Whether defined by family, lineage, caste, professional or religious association, village, or region, India's diverse groups did settle on a concept of law in classical times. How did they reach this consensus? Was it based on religious grounds or a transcendent source of knowledge? Did it depend on time and place? And what apparatus did communities develop to ensure justice was done, verdicts were fair, and the guilty were punished?Addressing these questions and more, A Dharma Reader traces the definition, epistemology, procedure, and process of Indian law from the third century B.C.E. to the middle ages. Its breadth captures the centuries-long struggle by Indian thinkers to theorize law in a multiethnic and pluralist society. The volume includes new and accessible translations of key texts, notes that explain the significance and chronology of selections, and a comprehensive introduction that summarizes the development of various disciplines in intellectual-historical terms. It reconstructs the principal disputes of a given discipline, which not only clarifies the arguments but also relays the dynamism of the fight. For those seeking a richer understanding of the political and intellectual origins of a major twenty-first-century power, along with unique insight into the legal interactions among its many groups, this book offers exceptional detail, historical precision, and expository illumination.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Early Thinkers

2. Later Aphoristic Texts on Dharma

3. Perspectives from Political Science: Kautilya (first-Second Century C.E.)

4. Innovations of Manu (Mid-Second Century C.E.)

5. Developments After Manu

6. The School of Vedic Exegesis

7. Early Commentators

8. Medieval Commentators and Systematizers

9. The Beginnings

10. The Early Theorists

11. The Mature Phase

12. Early Commentators

13. Medieval Commentators and Systematizers

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780231542159

0231542151

OCLC:

952139367