Law is the study of the principles, rules, institutions, and practices through which societies establish justice, regulate conduct, resolve disputes, protect rights, and maintain social order. It examines the relationship between law, authority, institutions, individuals, communities, and the state, while considering how legal systems evolve in response to changing social conditions. An Indic approach to Law further explores Dharma, Nyaya, Vyavahara, Rajadharma, Dandaniti, Smriti traditions, and customary practices, asking how Bharatiya traditions understood justice, duty, rights, obligations, dispute resolution, punishment, and the relationship between law and the ethical order of society.
Law & Dharmashastra
Interrogating Law
Decolonizing Law
Articles examining the colonial assumptions, legal categories, institutions, theories, and curricula through which Law is conventionally studied and taught. This section reconsiders ideas of law, justice, rights, duty, punishment, and jurisprudence in relation to Bharat’s own legal and normative traditions.
Indian Primary Sources of Dharmashastra
Indian Primary Sources of Dharmashastra
The Dharmaśāstric Tradition: Sources
The Dharmaśāstric Tradition: Sources
Law and Society
Law and Society
Dharmashāstric - Nyāya Dṛṣṭi
A space for exploring law and justice through Indic understandings of Dharma, Nyāya, Vyavahāra, Daṇḍa, and Rājadharma. It moves beyond syllabus-bound legal studies to develop contemporary approaches to justice, social order, rights, duties, dispute resolution, and jurisprudence rooted in Bharat’s intellectual traditions.
The Dharmaśāstra Tradition: Part V: The Nibandhas and Digests
The Dharmaśāstra Tradition: Part V: The Nibandhas and Digests
The Dharmaśāstra Tradition: Part IV: The Commentarial Age
The Dharmaśāstra Tradition: Part IV: The Commentarial Age
The Dharmaśāstra Tradition: Part III: The Smṛtis — Manu and the Expanding World of Dharmaśāstra
