Modern western conception of justice as equality before the law and dharmashastras

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It is about Dharma which covers notions like religion, duty, law, right, justice, practice and principle (K. Padhy, ). It describes religion in its entirely good and bad effect of the past actions and the external code of conduct of four classes of people.

The code is the highest law and it is described in the revealed canon and in. The academia, media, NGO activists, and society intellectuals popularize the conception of the Shramana and Bhakti movements, which includes Buddhism and Jainism, as revolting against the caste system in times bygone.

Some go to the extent of claiming the roots of the Dalit movement in these movements. The academia, media, NGO activists, and society intellectuals popularize the conception of the Shramana and Bhakti movements, which includes Buddhism and Jainism, as revolting against the caste system in times bygone.

Some go to the extent of claiming the roots of the Dalit movement in these movements. The Growth of a Universalistic Legal System in India. If we follow Emile Durkheim, law is a “visible symbol” of the invisible fact of social solidarity in a society; society being a moral phenomenon eludes measurement or observation through other (than law) objective indices.

Justice is a methodology, that which is the most appropriate to balance and realise The attempt to classify dharma and dharmic jurisprudence into paradigms of duties is tempting but misleading Justice is based on philosophy and its interest is to preserve order in the world and law is a mere facilitator of the process In essence law.

The Hindu society has always been devoid of ‘isms’, almost all of which are a direct consequence of a gender-dominated, gender-specific, politico-religious ideologies that were developed in the harsh desert landscapes of a war-like Middle East dur.

The ambiguous status of religious personal laws serves to legitimize the continued denial by the state of gender equality to women in family law matters as it Author: Archana Parashar. The ius civile of the Romans, the Talmud of the Jews, the Shariah of Muslims, the Dharmashastras of the Hindus, Canon law and natural law of the Catholics, English common law, and the Chinese Dao fully recognized that at least some parts of the world’s resource can be legitimately owned by individuals.

Before utilitarians eroded the. We may notice that in the South African law, equality has been defined as both de jure and de facto equality.

It has provided that: “Equality includes the full and equal enjoyment of rights and freedoms as contemplated in the Constitution and includes de jure and de facto equality and also equality in terms of the outcomes.”   Anwar Ali Sarkar19, which set out an important principle with reference to Article 14 of the Constitution.

Article 14 of the Constitution runs as follows: “ The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of. Under Indian Constitution, what is laid down in terms of equality is a twin concept, i.e.

equality before law and equal protection of laws, while the former ensures equal status to everybody, from a prince to a pauper, the later concept, is aimed at achieving substantial equality by classifying the advantaged and disadvantaged and provide the.

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There was a time when historians were fascinated with dates. There were heated debates about the dates on which rulers were crowned or battles were fought. In the common-sense notion, history was synonymous with dates. Hindu law, as a historical term, refers to the code of laws applied to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs in British India.

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Volume 2 contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth. Non-Western or non-human-centered notions of ethics and justice present challenges for engaging with the existing energy justice scholarship (Cline, ; Murphy and Weber, ).

The Dharmashastras are bound to shock the sensibilities of many educated modern men and women. These scriptures belong to an age when people conducted their lives based on certain beliefs, values, traditions and assumptions.

It is not fair to judge them based on our present day values and social norms. The conflict between varna-vyavastha and the value of equality is more than obvious. As I mentioned earlier, the system of graded inequality seems to be the very essence of varna-vyavastha.

It denies equal respect to all in society. It denies equality before law. It denies equal access to marriage partners. It denies equal access to jobs. The dharmashastras, often referred to as the "Law Books," are most concerned with laying down guidelines for an organized, orderly society, in which each person has a well-defined status and role, based on social status, age, and gender.

You can write a book review and share your experiences. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. Whether you've loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new. Modern Sources (a) Equity, Justice and Good Conscience - In its modern version, concept of equity, justice and good conscience is considered as important source of Hindu Law, which owes its origin to the beginning of British Administration.

The charters of several High Courts established by British Government, directed that in the absence of. The Manusmriti also known as Manav Dharam Shastra, is the earliest metrical work on Brahminical Dharma in ing to Hindu mythology, the Manusmriti is the word of Brahma, and it is classified as the most authoritative statement on scripture consists of verses, divided into 12 chapters.

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INTRODUCTION “I would not care whether truth is pleasant or unpleasant, and in consonance with or opposed to current views. First, the typical Western split between the religious and the socio-economic realms is very limited in Hinduism, as it is indeed for most Oriental mentalities; practical social morality is supposed to agree with religious and philosophical precepts.

Thus, codes of law which presumably derive from the latter can be regarded as part of Hinduism. Debunking the myth that Manu Smriti punishes the Shudras harshly. And understanding why Manu's penal system is the sure-shot method to destroy corruption that is eating away the : Sanjeev Newar.

Here it appears that the Sudra is identified with the sweeper or scavenger, the most debased and impure of modern Hindu castes. In the Dharmashastras or law-books it is laid down that a person taking a Sudra’s food for a month becomes a Sudra and after death becomes a dog.

Issue begotten after eating a Sudra’s food is of the Sudra caste. Modern interpretations of embryonic “status” under criminal and civil law As the medical community’s understanding of human development increased, courts.

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The internees were sponsored by the Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed University), Dindigul (Tamilnadu) and the SNDT and Mumbai Universities in Mumbai.One of the most important facts that is NOT told (deliberately) to all is that the so called Aryan culture, was NOT the origin of birth based endogamy and caste system, at least in Tamil Nadu.

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