Hindu and Ancient Indian Law Figures

Hindu and Ancient Indian Law Figures gathers the lawgivers and legal commentators of the ancient and classical Hindu legal tradition, the dharmashastra literature that set out duty, conduct and law, dharma, for classical Indian society. This tradition developed independently of and centuries before the common law, civil law and Islamic legal traditions grouped elsewhere in this subcategory, and its surviving texts remain a primary source for the history of law on the Indian subcontinent.