Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c3: Introductory Note

Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c3

Language: English

Introductory Note

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Dr. Jolly's valuable researches into the history of ancient Hindu law and custom do not stand in need of an introduction at this time of day. His *Recht und Sitte* has long occupied the rank of a classic in this field.

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In placing the first authorised English edition of this well known book before the public, the Greater India Society wishes, first of all, to place on record its grateful appreciation of the sympathy and encouragement of members and well-wishers of the Society, but for which it could not have undertaken this task so soon after the publication of *Champa*, the first volume in its series, Ancient Hindu Colonies in the Far East, by Dr. R. C. Majumdar.

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To Dr. Jolly the Society is under a deep debt of gratitude not only for his authorisation and the trouble he has taken to obtain, on its behalf, the consent of his German publishers, but also for personally going through considerable parts of the manuscript, suggesting corrections and improvements and for writing a new preface for this translation. This and the valuable notes and references which have been added by the author and the translator with a view to bring it in line with the latest researches, make this translation a new edition rather than a mere translation of the original book.

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The translator, Mr. Batakrishna Ghosh, a young Indologist of great promise and an enthusiastic member of the Society has spared no pains to make his work as accurate as possible. He has also made certain modifications in the text at the suggestion or with the consent of the author.

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The Society also feels that it cannot let the book go out to the public without a word of acknowledgment as to what it owes to the promptitude and the courtesy of the managers of the Prabasi Press who have given it every facility in their power and have gone to the length of supplying, at a sacrifice to themselves, special types with diacritical marks indispensable for a technical work of this kind. The credit for the timely publication and the typographical merits of the book is entirely theirs.