Sources
The greatest difficulty in studying Hindu Law is to establish a date to which any particular statement should be referred, as chronology had absolutely no existence among Hindu writers. Every sacred text is equally true to a Hindu writer; however it is unsafe to assume that any statement of law represented an existing fact of its time. Anglo-Hindu law relied on sources that had been used previously, throughout Classical Hindu Law, but the sources described below were the most pertinent to Anglo-Hindu law in regards to translation and accessibility. Similarly, interests in dharma as a whole were reduced throughout the Anglo-Hindu law period as the British were primarily interested in vyavahara. This is revealed in the below sources in so far as they address the interests of vyavahara, which is precisely why these sources were utilized by the British.
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