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“Before this book came out, people thought of law in precolonial India in terms of normative, codified texts, such as the Shari‘a or the Dharmashastras, Hindu law. By contrast, Chatterjee’s book examines how law actually operated at the village level. Nobody had done that before.” Read more...
The best books on The Mughal Empire
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