[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c22.3 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c22.3 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c22.3 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c22.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c22.3) ⁴²⁰ Vide Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences, vol. XIV, p. 74 ‘To the ancient mind slavery was a fixed and accepted element of life and no moral problem was involved. That slavery already was established as a recognized institution in the Sumerian culture of the Babylonian area in the 4th millenium B. C. may be confidently assumed from the fragments of Sumerian legislation upon slaves which date from the first half of the 3rd millenium’. - [Previous: v2.c22.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c22.2) - [Next: v2.c22.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c22.4) - [Up: v2.c22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c22) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c22.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c22.3) · Pramāṇa