Appropriation and Invention of Tradition: The East India Company and Hindu Law in Early Colonial Bengal

The book, strongly grounded in primary sources, reconstructs the legal and intellectual history of early modern Bengal. It studies the subject of Hindu property rights and explores the compendia prepared under the British. The author argues that there was hardly any link between the Smritis and the colonial Hindu laws.



Readership: Scholars and students of law, history, and sociology particularly those interested in intellectual, cultural, and legal history of colonial India.