Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s2.2

c11.s2.2

But then the Company started getting manuals of Hindu law prepared with the very help of these *paṇḍits* to break their monopoly. In fact, the attempts at compiling the legel digests from Sanskrit sources and getting them translated into English; or even preparing translations of philosophical and literary Sanskrit texts formed a part of the strategy of Orientalists to “out” the *paṇḍits*.¹² The origins of one of the most passionate and prolonged debates which the trial of Hastings involved are rooted in the image of India in the seventeenth century.¹³