History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.539

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After the establishment of British rule in India during about 150 years numerous publications dealing with Hindu customs and usages and the Hindu law of debts, contracts, adoption, family rights, partition and inheritance have been published. It is impossible to give an exhaustive list of these nor is it necessary to do so. Most of them have now only an academic or historic interest. But a few of them must be mentioned for their worth, for purposes of study and for a knowledge of the modern Hindu Law as administered by the British Indian courts They are: Bannerjee's 'Hindu Law of Marriage and stridhan' (5th ed. of 1923); Colebrooke's Digest of Hindu Law, which is a translation of Jagannātha's Vivādabhangārṇava (3rd ed. of 1864, Madras); the several volumes of the Bombay Gazetteer and the Gazetteers of the other provinces and the Imperial Gazetteer of India; A. Ghosh's 'Law of endowments' (2nd ed., 1938); Dr. Jolly's Tagore Law Lectures on Partition, Inheritance and Adoption and *Recht und Sitte* translated by Prof. Batakrishna Ghosh (1928)); Mayne's Hindu Law (10th ed. of 1938); Mulla's Hindu Law (9th ed. of 1940); K. L. Sarkar's 'Mimansa rules of interpretation'; G. C. Sarkar's Hindu Law and Hindu Law of Adoption (2nd ed. 1916); Rajkumar Sarvadhikari's 'Principles of the Hindu Law of Inheritance' (2nd ed. 1922), Dr. P. N. Sen's 'General Principles of Hindu Jurisprudence' (1918); Steele's Law and custom of Hindu castes' in the Deccan (London, 1868); Stoke's Hindu Law Texts (a work constantly quoted by the Courts and the Privy Council) containing English translations of the Mitākṣarā, the Dāyabhāga, the Vyavahāramayūkha, the Dattakamīmāṁsā, the Dattakacandrikā, the Dāyakramasaṅgraha; West and Bühler's Digest of Hindu Law.