The concept of duty in South Asia

Beschreibung

xxii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm 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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Titel

The concept of duty in South Asia

Verlag

New Delhi : Vikas Pub. House

Erscheinungsjahr

1978

Einband

Hardcover

Zustand

Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Very Good

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