Antiquity and law: the legal system in India

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Arturo Oropeza García

Keywords

India, Indian Law, Anglo -Indian Law, Dharma, Vedas.

Abstract

Just as there is not one India on political and economic issues, there is not one Indian Law. There coexist, in a Constitutional Law matrix, a modern law, which follows the western lines, along with a Personal and Family Law, who refuses to give up their ancient customs. The first one governs the world’s largest democracy; gives order and administration to its political and economic life; and allows it to talk fluently with the global world. The second keeps officiating ancestral rites; attending special courts; and transforming to positive law all aspects not contemplated in the legal order. Both are powerful legal trends arising from the same India and that will continue evolving in accordance with the nature and modernization of the Indian people.

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