[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021) › c11.s2.2 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s2.2 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s2.2 - **Language:** English ### [c11.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.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 - [Previous: c11.s2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c11.s2.1) - [Next: c11.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c11.s2.3) - [Up: c11.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c11.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c11.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c11.s2.2) · Pramāṇa