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Silencing the Voice of Agricultural Labourers in South Gujarat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

Jan Breman
Jan Breman
Affiliation:
Centre for Asian Studies, Amsterdam
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Abstract

. . . according to Manu, for slandering a Vaisya or a Shudra the fines are only twenty-five or twelve panas, respectively. For members of the lower orders who slander their betters the penalties are much more severe . . . the equality of the law was never admitted in ancient India, and was quite contrary to most Indian thought. (A. L. Basham, The Wonder That Was India, 1954: 120).

Type
Research Article
Information
Modern Asian Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 1 - 22
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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