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The Concept of duty in South Asia

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Delhi South Asia Books 1978Description: 240pISBN:
  • 9780706905342
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170.000000 OFL
Contents:
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
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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