Punjab
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the Punjab · the Five Rivers
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Province of India examined for Hindu institutions untouched by later Brahmanical revision.
There is in India a province, the Punjab, the country of the Five Rivers, which was the earliest seat of the Aryan Hindus on their descent from their original home into the Indian plains.
and it is a very plausible conjecture that it was not unlike the existing very imperfectly sacerdotalised customary law of the Hindus in the Punjab.
This opinion is fortified by the recent investigations into the customary law of the Punjab, the earliest Indian home, I must repeat, of the Aryan Hindus after their descent from the mountain-land of their origin.
The Law of Torts
Region whose judicial officers are quoted assessing the suitability of specific draft illustrations for Indian conditions.
An experienced judicial officer (Punjab) regards it as “very queer law and of doubtful equity.
Richards, but I am told by an Indian judicial officer (Punjab) that for Indian purposes it would not do to go so far, and that practice is in fact otherwise.
A Punjab officer says the illustration is too refined, “unsuited to India, and objectionable on principle in relation to that country.