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English

 

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Delbert W

 

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October 14, 2012

 

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University

 

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A

 

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If certain practices were found to be "sanctioned by the Shaster," these ought to be tolerated by the colonial state. In the process, the colonials employed the pundits of local courts in order to codify the "Hindoo law." The prevalent explanations of this policy look to the power-knowledge nexus of colonial rule and its need for a precise legal apparatus to gain control of Indian society...
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These explanations fail on several counts. Firstly, they are ad hoc: they cannot explain as to why the British colonials required a codification of Hindu law, while the Islamic rulers had not. Secondly, they beg the question, since they do not account for the colonial obsession to interpret and endorse the scriptural injunctions of a ?false and idolatrous' religion...
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