Hindu Administrative Institutions c10.s4.5

c10.s4.5

‘The same doubts occur in connection with the question of torture discussed on page 628. Suspects were tortured both in Europe and India at a much later date, many centuries after the date of Kauṭalya, and I cannot believe that there was, as you suggest, any process or practice which even remotely afforded to the criminal of the Mauryan times the protection afforded by the jury system to a criminal of to-day.’ Such views are by no means peculiar to the late Mr. Edwardes and as such deserve examination.