South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology...

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Chaudhry

South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought

Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law

Chaudhry

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Oxford University Press
08 November 2024

Social & cultural history; Colonialism & imperialism; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Legal history

This book considers the legal history of colonial rule in South Asia from 1757 to the early 20th century. It traces a shift in the conceptualization of sovereignty, land control, and adjudicatory rectification, arguing that under the East India Company the focus was on 'the laws' factoring into the administration of justice more than 'the law' as an infinitely generative norm system. This accompanied a discourse about rendering property 'absolute' defined in terms of a certainty of controlling land's rent-and made administrable mainly as a duty of revenue paymentDLrather than any right of ostensibly physical dominion. Leaving property external to its ontology of 'the laws,' the Company's regime thus differed significantly from its counterparts in the Anglo-common-law mainstream, where an ostensibly unitary, physical, and disaggregable notion of the property right was becoming a stand in for a notion of legal right in general already by the late 18th century. Only after 1858, under Crown rule, did conditions in the subcontinent ripen for 'the law' to emerge as a purportedly free-standing institutional fact. A key but neglected factor in this transformation was the rise of classical legal thought, which finally enabled property's internalization into 'the law' and underwrote status and contract becoming the other key elements of the Raj's new legal ontology. Formulating a historical ontological approach to jurisprudence, the book deploys a running distinction between the doctrinal discourse of (the) law and ordinary-language discourse about (the) law that carries implications for legal theory well beyond South Asia.

By: Chaudhry
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198916482
ISBN 10: 0198916485
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 08 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Faisal Chaudhry is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts School of Law. He also holds a concurrent appointment in the Department of History as well. His academic background includes positions at the University of Dayton and the University of Pennsylvania. Chaudhry's historical research centres on the interplay between law, empire, and political economy in South Asia, with a focus on the historical convergence of legal and economic concepts. In his contemporary scholarship, he examines the role of law in supporting markets and the complex impact of property rights institutions on our overall well-being.