TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bhattacharyya-Panda,Nandini
TI  - Appropriation and invention of tradition: the East India Company and Hindu law in early colonial Bengal
SN  - 9780198083788
U1  - 954.448 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Law
KW  - India
KW  - Bengal
KW  - History
KW  - Customary law
KW  - Hindu law
KW  - Reception
KW  - Bengal (India)
KW  - Colonial influence
N1  - Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford; 1. The Pre-colonial Tradition of the Dharmasastras -- 2. Hindu Law of Property and Inheritance and the East India Company Officials, 1698-1772 -- 3. Vivadarnavasetu and A Code of Gentoo Laws -- 4. Towards a Second Code: The Response to New Imperatives -- 5. Vivadabhangarnava and A Digest of Hindoo Laws
ER  -