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Property Rights and Land Ownership Laws in 18th and 19th Century India under British Colonial Rule

Tuesday, April 08, 2025 at 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Dr. Chaudhry will draw from his recently published book, South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought, to

  1. describe the scandal-ridden early history of the British East India Company and its focus on "laws of administration" rather than the law of physical dominion, and
  2. the later shift to a an aggregation of physical property rights and the emergence of "the law" as a free-standing institutional fact.

LARTS 118 : UMass Dartmouth
CAROL HANSEN
chansen1@umassd.edu