(With apologies for cross-posting)
Hi all,
I am happy to announce the US publication of my recent monograph, Equity and Trusts in Sanskrit Jurisprudence.
The book is open access and freely downloadable. I argue that a Dharmaśāstric theory of Equity as supplemental (pāribhāṣika) Dharma subtended the legal regulation of religious and charitable trusts in pre-colonial South Asian history.
I also explore how Sanskrit Equitable principles were appropriated and recast by colonial-era courts. The book concludes with a close reading of the Supreme Court of India's reconfiguration of Anglo-Hindu case law vis-a-vis Constitutional rights in some very prominent cases (Ayodhyā, Padmanābhasvāmi, Kāśīviśvanātha, etc).
Wishing all the very best,
Christopher Fleming