caa a22 4500 386406340 CHVBK 20180307112224.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2058113 doi S0021911800047380 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2058113 Lariviere Richard W. Justices and Paṇḍitas: Some Ironies in Contemporary Readings of the Hindu Legal Past [Elektronische Daten] [Richard W. Lariviere] India's history provides one of the best documented examples of colonialism. The British kept meticulous records of their attempts to improve, govern, and even exploit the people and institutions of the subcontinent. Improvement and government often occurred at the expense of traditional institutions, especially in the area of the legal tradition. The British are responsible for the decline and eventual demise of the living dharmaśāstra (science of orthodox behavior) tradition. The tradition has not been resuscitated in independent India. Nevertheless, even though the office of Paṇḍita (traditional expert) has long been abolished from the courts and the very training of modern Paṇḍitas has become rare, the texts of the dharmaśāstra tradition continue to be used in a very "paṇḍitic” fashion by the courts of modern India. The justices function as Paṇḍitas, and the texts they cite are mere window dressing for the interpretations of Hindu law they seek to promulgate. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 The Journal of Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 48/4(1989-11), 757-769 0021-9118 48:4<757 1989 48 JAS https://doi.org/10.2307/2058113 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2058113 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lariviere Richard W. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 48/4(1989-11), 757-769 0021-9118 48:4<757 1989 48 JAS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge