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Oflaherty Wendy Doniger

The Concept of duty in South Asia - Delhi South Asia Books 1978 - 240p

Contents:
Use and misuse of dharma / Arnold Kunst;
The concept of duty in ancient Indian jurisprudence : the problem of ascertainment / J. Duncan M. Derrett;
The concept of dharma in Artha and Kama literature / Friedrich Wilhelm;
Veda and dharma / J.C. Heesterman;
The clash between relative and absolute duty : the dharma of demons / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty;
The duty of a Buddhist according to the Pali scriptures / Richard F. Gombrich;
Rajakariya or the duty to the king in the Kandyan Kingdom of Sri Lanka / Alex Gunasekara;
The duty of the sultan (in the Sultanate period) to further the material welfare of his subjects / P. Hardy;
Stern daughter of the voice of God : ideas of duty among the British in India / T.G.P. Spear;
British rights and Indian duties : the case of Sir William Lee-Warner / Kenneth A. Ballhatchet;
Concepts of duty held by Indian nationalist thinkers / David Taylor;
The semantic fields of dharma and kartavy in modern Hindi / Simon Weightman and S.M. Pandey;
Changing norms in the Hindu joint family / S.C. Dube

ISBN: 9780706905342

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Dharma - Duty - South Asia 2. Ethics - Civlization

Dewey Class. No.: 170.000000 / OFL