Book Review
A review essay covering four recent monographs on Dharmaśāstra, assessing their methodological assumptions and their treatment of commentarial literature.
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Sources are cited by edition, chapter and verse where a primary text carries the argument. Where a translation is the author’s own, it is marked as such.
Claims about a tradition are distinguished from the author’s inference, and modern scientific or social claims are supported by contemporary evidence rather than asserted.