Religion, Law and the State in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2912012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald E Smith (0009-0008-4436-7388, California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author), J Duncan M Derrett |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 550 |
| Publication date | 1969-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2754167 |
| OpenAlex | W2057604741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 122 |
This volume analyzes the development of the unique and complex nexus of values, beliefs and laws that comprise the Indian legal system, from ancient times, through the period of British colonization, and into the post-Independence era. J. Duncan M. Derrett is one of the world's leading authorities on Indian legal history
Political science · State (computer science) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Evolving Legal Systems and Governance · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Mathematics
Caste, Dacoity and Countryside in the Nineteenth-century Bengal
William Jones, Esq
Marriage, family, and property in India
Communities and Courts
The Indian Supreme Court and the quest for a ‘rational’ Hinduism
Idolatry
Framing religion in constitutional politics
Religious freedom and cultural asymmetry
The Semi-Autonomous Judge in Colonial India
South Asian Legal History
Surveying Key Aspects of Sociolegal Scholarship on India
Legal Unification and Nation Building in the Post-colonial World
Sacred laws and the secular state
Pluralism and liberalism
Deaf cultures
A cognitive analysis of sin and expiation in early Hindu literature
Rules of untouchability in ancient and medieval law books
Writing histories of disability in India
An Elegy for Nīti
Three Models of Secular Constitutional Development
Secularism in the Indian Context
Just Hindus
The Transformation of Buddhism during British Colonialism
The Legal Authority of the Buddha over the Buddhist Order of Monks
Hebrew Satyagraha
Escaping the Grip of Personal Law in Colonial India
Legal Limbo and Caste Consternation
Intimate Violence in Colonial Bengal
A Note on Caste Panchayats and Government Courts in India
Official Policies for (Un)Official Customs
The myth of the state, or the state's religious legitimation
Do courts grant women their inheritance shares? An analysis of case law in India
Colonial Circuits of Power, Indian Raw Materials
Indian Christians and The Making of Composite Culture in South India
Two Accounts of the Colonised ‘Other’ in South Asia
Justice, Epistemic Violence in South Asian Studies and the Nebulous Entity of Caste in Our Age of Chaos
Nationalism imagined? Hidden impacts of the uprising of 1857
Politics of Personal Law in India
Environmental Law With Non-Human Features in India
Las tribulaciones del señor
Brahman judges in traditional Hindu society
Liberal Political Theory and the Cultural Migration of Ideas
The ‘morbid mark’
The ultra‐modernity of tradition
The unwanted commission
On the absence of descent groups among some Udayars of south India
Karma and social justice in the criminal code of Manu
My words were not cared for
Has the Codified Hindu Law Changed Gender Relationships
The Politics of Indian Secularism
Ankalu's Errant Wife
A post-colonial patriarchy? Representing family in the Indian nation-state
Māmul' and Modernity in a South Indian Temple
Ideology and Ethnicity under British Imperial Rule
Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code of 1862
What's Become of the Pandit? Rethinking the History of Sanskrit Scholars in Colonial Bengal
Notes on Political Thought in Medieval and Early Modern South India
Jainism in Danger? Temple entry and the rhetoric of religion and reform in post-colonial India
Law, Legitimacy, and the Hereditary Rights of Tamil Temple Priests
Religious change, social conflict and legal competition
Dharma in the Veda and the Dharma??stras
Freedom of Religion Under the Sudan Constitution and Laws
Personal Law and Human Rights in India and Israel
Traditional vocations and modern professions among Tamil Brahmans in colonial and post-colonial south India
Zamindars, inheritance law and the spread of the waqf in the United Provinces at the turn of the twentieth century
Beyond exceptionalism
Something like rights? Faith, law and widow immolation debates in colonial Bengal
English Law, Brahmo Marriage, and the Problem of Religious Difference
Regulation of 'Religion' and the 'Religious
Sémantique et rhétorique dans la hiérarchie hindoue des « buts de I'homme
Islam, minority status and citizenship
Against High-Caste Polygamy
Studies in Jaina History and Culture
The Emergence of Aryanism
Comparing Eighteenth-Century Polities
Colonial Indecision and the Origins of the Hindu Joint Family
Constitutions, contact zones, and imperial ricochets
Transformations of Caste in Colonial India
Ethnicity and Racialism in Colonial Indian Society
Asceticising' Monastic Families
More than One Mrs. Mir Anwaruddin
Touch It Not, If You Are Not a Historian”
Kotā Mahājagat, or the Great Universe of Kota
The codification of personal law and secular citizenship
The social worth of scribes
Conjugating marriage
Conquering the quarters
The Language of Disenchantment
Hinduism as a Legal Tradition
The Supreme Court in Modi’s India
Legal Anthropology
The Unification of Law and the Postcolonial State
Of Marriage, Divorce and Criminalisation
(De)Colonization of Knowledge
Secularism, History, and Contemporary Politics in India
Refashioning Civilities, Engineering Trust
Personal Autonomy and the Option of Religious Law
Filing Religion
The Government of Social Life in Colonial India
Justice in many Rooms
| Unique citing works | 122 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,26 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 2025 (54) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 51 |