Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Abbreviations
Map
Introduction
Timothy Lubin, Donald R. Davis, Jr., and Jayanth K. Krishnan
Part I
Hindu law
1
A historical overview of Hindu law
Donald R. Davis, Jr.
2
Dharma
stra: a textual history
Patrick Olivelle
3
The practice of classical Hindu law
Axel Michaels
4
The creation of Anglo-Hindu law
Rosane Rocher
5
Marriage and family in colonial Hindu law
Rachel Sturman
6
Hindu law as personal law: state and identity in the Hindu Code Bills debates, 1952–1956
Rina Verma Williams
Part II
Law in ancient and medieval Hindu traditions
7
Hindu jurisprudence and scriptural hermeneutics
Lawrence McCrea
8
Indic conceptions of authority
Timothy Lubin
9
dradharma
and legal treatments of caste
Ananya Vajpeyi
10
Law, literature, and the problem of politics in medieval India
Whitney M. Cox
11
Hindu law as performance: ritual and poetic elements in Dharma
stra
Robert A. Yelle
Part III
Law and modern Hinduism
12
Temples, deities, and the law
Richard H. Davis
13
In the divine court of appeals: vows before the god of justice
Aditya Malik
14
Contemporary caste discrimination and affirmative action
Laura Dudley Jenkins
15
Law and Hindu nationalist movements
Smita Narula
16
Legally and politically layered identities: a thumbnail survey of selected Hindu migration patterns from South Asia
Jayanth K. Krishnan
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
stra: a textual history
dradharma