Religion,Law and Social Imagination:Textual Translation in the Construction of Anglo-Hindu Law in British India,1772-1864
In pre-colonial India,there was no statute law in modern sense.During the colonial period,in order to enforce the effective judicial administration in British India,the Raj decided to organize Orientalists and Brahman pandits to collect and translate Sanskrit legal texts and compile a so-called Hindu code.Between 1772-1864,after the long-term efforts of the first Bengal Governor-general Warren Hastings as well as such Orientalists as Nathaniel Halhed,William Jones and Henry Colebrooke,the Raj finally managed to construct what they thought a"textual","authoritative"but also"Anglo"Hindu code.The compilation of Anglo-Hindu code not only created modern statute laws for colonial India,but also shaped the modern concept of Hinduism and the imagination of traditional Indian society.
British IndiaHinduismAnglo-Hindu LawTextual Translation
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