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# Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte)

Sources of Hindu law (dharmasūtras, smṛtis, commentaries) and their dates; marriage, family, inheritance, contracts, crimes, procedure, ordeals, penance, customs.

- **Language:** English
- **Date:** 1849–1932 CE
- **Authors:** [Julius Jolly](https://indike.org/pramana/person/jolly), [Batakrishna Ghosh](https://indike.org/pramana/person/ghosh-b)
- **Extent:** 1,497 passages, 108,993 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · English tr. by B. Ghosh, Calcutta: Greater India Society 1928 (German original in Grundriss der indo-arischen… · In copyright (Julius Jolly †1932; Batakrishna Ghosh); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and…

## Contents

- [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c1) — 3 parts
- [c2 Hindu Law and Custom](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c2) — 6 parts
- [c3 Introductory Note](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c3) — 8 parts
- [c4 Foreword](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c4) — 5 parts
- [c5 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c5) — 6 parts
- [c6 Abbreviations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c6) — 2 parts
- [c7 I. The Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c7) — 859 parts
- [c8 III. Law of Property and Contract](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8) — 236 parts
- [c9 IV. Crime, Penance and Punishment](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c9) — 116 parts
- [c10 V. Judicial Procedure](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c10) — 144 parts
- [c11 VI. Customs and Usages](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c11) — 68 parts
- [c12 Sanskrit Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c12) — 15 parts
- [c13 Errata](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c13) — 29 parts

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