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A Code of Gentoo Laws; or, Ordinations of the Pundits: From a Persian Transla…
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Nathaniel Brassey Halhed

In the second half of the eighteenth century, the English philologist Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (1751–1830) was employed in India by the East India Company. There he was asked to translate into English the Hindu legal code, so that the British authorities could better understand native laws. The result was this accomplished work, first published in 1776, which served to correct Western misinte…

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