Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.469

c7.469

Besides these and other official publications there is an extraordinary abundance of private works which, of course, are not so valuable. In the following treatise, along with other works the following books have been used: Mallick, Essays on the Hindu family in Bengal (Calc. 1882); Sir A. Lyall, Asiatic Studies (London, 1882); Bose, The Hindoos as they are (Calc. 1881); Phear, The Aryan Village in India and Ceylon (London. 1880); Tod, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (Lond. 1829-32, 2 vols.); M. Williams, Modern India and the Indians (third edition, Lond. 1879); Malcolm, A Memoir of Central India (Lond. 1824, 2 vols.); Dubois, Peoples of India (Lond. 1817). Particularly the older works are, under present circumstances, more valuable, for under British rule the customs have changed more and more; this is the cause of the importance of the sketches of older travelling accounts of Fryer (1697) and others given by T. Hunter in the fourth volume of his History of India. For the mediaeval age, Alberuni's description of India (about 1030) is the most important work.¹ Among the travelling accounts of the Chinese the well-known work of Hiouen Thsang (7th century) is the best of all.² The Greek accounts of India contain little that may be turned into account for the history of legal practices; but they are important for their antiquity.