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  3. A Digest of Hindu Law, on Contracts and Successions
    Volume 3
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    March 2014
    February 2013
    ISBN:
    9781139519823
    9781108056281
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519823
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.82kg, 652 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Legal History, Area Studies, South Asian History, Law, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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    Subjects:
    Legal History, Area Studies, South Asian History, Law, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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    An honorary professor of Sanskrit and Hindu law at Fort William College in Calcutta, and a key figure in the foundation of the Royal Asiatic Society, Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765–1837) became Britain's foremost orientalist during the early nineteenth century. Taking up the reins of Sanskrit scholarship following the death of Sir William Jones (1746–94), Colebrooke made several substantial contributions to Indic study. Through seminal publications such as a grammar of Sanskrit and an extended article on the Vedas, he provided unprecedented access to one of the world's oldest languages and some of its oldest texts. Published in 1801, this three-volume translation of Brahman law was based on a Sanskrit compilation prepared by a pandit, Jagannatha Tercapanchanana, whose learned commentary is also featured in the work. Volume 3 continues with inheritance law, covering adoption (of sons) and bequeathal rights relating to daughters.

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