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Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence. By Christopher T. Fleming. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 272. $85.00 (cloth); $84.99 (digital). ISBN: 9780198852377.

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Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence. By Christopher T. Fleming. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 272. $85.00 (cloth); $84.99 (digital). ISBN: 9780198852377.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2024

Manomohini Dutta
Manomohini Dutta*
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Assistant Professor, Ahmedabad University, India [email protected]
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Journal of Law and Religion , First View , pp. 1 - 5
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1 For details on this collaboration, see “Proposal” and “Working Papers,” Sanskrit Knowledge Systems on the Eve of Colonialism, accessed April 15, 2024, http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pollock/sks/. The project website is hosted on an unencrypted server, and some modern web browsers may need to adjust security settings to access it.

2 Sheldon Pollock, “Is There an Indian Intellectual History? Introduction to ‘Theory and Method in Indian Intellectual History,’” in “Theory and Method in Indian Intellectual History,” ed. Sheldon Pollock, special issue, Journal of Indian Philosophy 36, nos. 5–6 (2008): 533–42; Ganeri, Jonardon, “Contextualism in the Study of Indian Cultures,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 36, nos. 5–6 (2008): 551–62CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 For details on Mīmāṃsā and Nyāya principles used in Dharmaśāstras, see Kane, Pandurang Vaman, History of Dharmaśāstra: Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law, 5 vols. (Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1930–1962)Google Scholar. For more recent scholarship on this, see Davis, Donald R. Jr. The Spirit of Hindu Law (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Also see McCrea, Lawrence, “Hindu Jurisprudence and Scriptural Hermeneutics,” in Hinduism and Law: An Introduction, ed. Lubin, Timothy, Davis, Donald R. Jr. and Krishnan, Jayanth K. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 123–36CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 For details on such criteria, see Rocher, Ludo, “Inheritance and Śrāddha: The Principle of Spiritual Benefit,” in Studies in Hindu Law and Dharmaśāstra, ed. Davis, Donald R. Jr. (New York: Anthem Press, 2012), 267–78CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For a more recent study, see Dutta, Manomohini, “Upakāra: The Theory of Spiritual Service and Women’s Inheritance in the Dāyabhāga,” Journal of Hindu Studies 11, no. 3 (2018): 260–84Google Scholar.

5 For details, see Ethan S. Kroll, “A Logical Approach to Law” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2010).

6 For a study of intellectual communities, see Wright, Samuel, A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India, 1500–1700 C.E. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 For details see Ludo Rocher, “Schools of Hindu Law,” in Davis, Studies in Hindu Law and Dharmaśāstra, 119–27. See also Davis, Spirit of Hindu Law.