Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s2.1
Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s2.1
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c11.s2.1
The Western subjugation generated a new kind of *vāda* between the *paṇḍits* as informants and the colonizers as rulers. Even though this could not be carried out on an equal footing, the officers of the East India Company and the British judges in the law courts at Calcutta had to depend on the *paṇḍits* for understanding the social institutions under Hinduism.