Barristers and Brahmans in India: Legal Cultures and Social Change
- 1 October 1965
- journal article
- legal cultures-and-social-change
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Vol. 8 (1) , 24-49
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500003881
Abstract
“You have given India,” Secretary of State Sir Samuel Hoare once told his officers, “justice such as the East has never known before.” For most Englishmen, having established therule of law” on the Indian subcontinent was probably the proudest achievement of the British raj. They believed that they had substituted legal security for disorder, predictability for uncertainty, and impartiality for whim and nepotism.Keywords
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