Mughal Administration c10.s4.16

c10.s4.16

In the old Marathi records we have much information about the Hindu caste courts and arbitration boards which administered justice according to Common Law. But they refer to the Deccan only, where society was differently constituted from Northern India. A few Sanskrit judgments have survived, giving us a glimpse of the Brahmanic courts sanctioned by the Emperor Akbar, which followed Manu and other text-writers on the "Gentoo Code," as Nathaniel B. Halhed called the loose mass of Sanskrit legal rules and pious injunctions which were appealed to by Hindu litigants at the end of the Mughal period.