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... tion . Much to their honour , the Indian Government of the day , formed of Lord Cornwallis and his Council , accepted his offer to preside over the undertaking , and his staff of native experts , considerably increased , was taken into ...
... tion . Much to their honour , the Indian Government of the day , formed of Lord Cornwallis and his Council , accepted his offer to preside over the undertaking , and his staff of native experts , considerably increased , was taken into ...
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... tion of self - assertion with self - denial and self - abase- ment that the wonderfully stubborn vitality of the main Brahmanical ideas may be attributed . As I have shown , the sacerdotal legal system , as a system , owes probably much ...
... tion of self - assertion with self - denial and self - abase- ment that the wonderfully stubborn vitality of the main Brahmanical ideas may be attributed . As I have shown , the sacerdotal legal system , as a system , owes probably much ...
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... tion , a Tribe , a House or a Family ; an Ion , a Romu- lus , or an Eumolpus . Nor , again , can it be visibly connected with the superstitious reverence of savages for their Totem , even though it symbolise to them the living creature ...
... tion , a Tribe , a House or a Family ; an Ion , a Romu- lus , or an Eumolpus . Nor , again , can it be visibly connected with the superstitious reverence of savages for their Totem , even though it symbolise to them the living creature ...
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... tion of the Family is entirely , to use the Roman phrase , ' agnatic ; ' kinship is counted through male descents only . There is a very strong resemblance between these usages and the most ancient Roman law , and their differences ...
... tion of the Family is entirely , to use the Roman phrase , ' agnatic ; ' kinship is counted through male descents only . There is a very strong resemblance between these usages and the most ancient Roman law , and their differences ...
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... tion which was steadily rising among the Brahman teachers in the law - schools . Let us now suppose the head of the household to have died without having left a son , without having appointed a daughter , without having taken a son in ...
... tion which was steadily rising among the Brahman teachers in the law - schools . Let us now suppose the head of the household to have died without having left a son , without having appointed a daughter , without having taken a son in ...
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