History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.1253
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.1253
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These rules about a patita led to this result that if a Hindu changed his religion or was excommunicated or was made an outcast for some lapse that his caste looked upon with great disfavour, he was deemed to have lost his rights of partition or inheritance. The Caste Disabilities Removal Act (XXI of 1850) abrogates these rules of the ancient¹¹⁷¹ Hindu Law.