Hinduism and Law An Introduction

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I HINDU LAW 15 1 A historical overview of Hindu law Donald R. Davis, Jr. 17 2 Dharmasastra: a textual history Patrick Olivelle 28 3 The practice of classical Hindu law Axel Michaels 58 4 The creation of Anglo-Hindu law Rosane Rocher 78 5 Marriage and family in colonial Hindu law Rachel Sturman 89 6 Hindu law as personal law: state and identity in the Hindu Code Bills debates, 1952-1956 Rina Verma Williams 105 PART II LAW IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HINDU TRADITIONS 121 7 Hindu jurisprudence and scriptural hermeneutics Lawrence McCrea 123 8 Indie conceptions of authority Timothy Lubin 137 9 Sudradharma. and legal treatments of caste Ananya Vajpeyi 154 10 Law, literature, and the problem of politics in medieval India Whitney M. Cox 167 11 Hindu law as performance: ritual and poetic elements in Dharmasastra Robert A. Yelle 183 PART III LAW AND MODERN HINDUISM 193 12 Temples, deities, and the law Richard H. Davis 195 13 In the divine court of appeals: vows before the god of justice Aditya Malik 207 14 Contemporary caste discrimination and affirmative action Laura Dudley Jenkins 215 15 Law and Hindu nationalist movements Smita Narula 234 16 Legally and politically layered identities: a thumbnail survey of selected Hindu migration patterns from South Asia Jayanth K. Krishnan 252