{"id":1,"date":"2015-05-15T19:32:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T19:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openarchive.in\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:59:57","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openarchive.in\/index.php\/2015\/05\/15\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This site is intended as a hub for the exchange of archival materials about Modern Law in South Asia. I\u2019ve uploaded over\u00a0550<\/strong>\u00a0documents<\/strong> to the PDF Library<\/a> \u2013 amounting to over\u00a024 Gb<\/strong> of data.\u00a0Most of the material on this website was sourced from Google Books, the Digital Library of India<\/a> and Archive.org<\/a>. \u00a0I don\u2019t have the means to scan documents on my own. My attempt here is only to provide a curated catalog of these materials for use by researchers in India and the sub-continent.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for a single-page\u00a0listing of all<\/em> documents on this website. Or, if you prefer a more gradual stroll through the archive, enter the PDF Library<\/a>\u00a0 and browse your way to the document you need.<\/p>\n

Some of the key documents you’ll find on this website:<\/p>\n

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  1. Classic Textbooks<\/strong> on some 14 areas of law including Family Law, Contracts, Civil Procedure and Criminal law, Constitutional Law etc. In this section you’ll also find original\u00a0translations of Hindu and Mohammedan Law by Baillee, Halhed, Colebrooke, Charles Hamilton etc.<\/li>\n
  2. Books about Indian\u00a0legal history written at various intervals dating as far back as 1772 right up to the 1950s. This collection includes rare classics such as BK. Acharya’s Tagore Law Lecture on\u00a0Codification in British India\u00a0<\/a><\/em>and Rankin’s Background to Indian Law.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Old Law Reports<\/strong> including 41\u00a0volumes<\/strong>\u00a0out of the first 50\u00a0Indian Law Reports\u00a0of Allahabad<\/strong>, numerous volumes of ILRs of Bombay. Calcutta and Madras<\/strong>, the complete\u00a014 Volumes of Moore’s Indian Appeals<\/strong>, and 35\u00a0volumes of the Law Reports Indian Appeals<\/strong>, a complete 25 Volume set of Sutherland’s Weekly Reporter (Calcutta)<\/strong> and a number of reports from the ‘Sudder’<\/strong>\u00a0Courts<\/strong> between 1791-1860. You’ll also find a full 6 Volume Digest of Indian Cases from 1836 to 1909 –<\/strong> an invaluable research tool for anyone interested in the history of law in India.<\/li>\n
  4. Full copies of some 70 of the 90 acclaimed ‘Tagore Law Lectures’<\/strong>. (scattered across the different categories)<\/li>\n
  5. Law Commission and Statutory Commission Reports<\/strong> including from 3 of the 4 pre-independence Law Commissions.<\/li>\n
  6. Collections of statutes<\/strong> through the 18th-19th century including such prizes as N.B. Halhed’s Code of Gentoo Laws,\u00a0<\/strong>and Whitley Stokes’ two-volume Anglo Indian Codes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This website is very much a work in progress and I intend to upload as much historical material here as I can plunder from online sources.<\/p>\n

    Please email <\/a>me if you have any documents you\u2019d like to share.<\/p>\n

    Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This site is intended as a hub for the exchange of archival materials about Modern Law in South Asia. I\u2019ve uploaded over\u00a0550\u00a0documents to the PDF Library \u2013 amounting to over\u00a024 Gb of data.\u00a0Most of the material on this website was sourced from Google Books, the Digital Library of India and Archive.org. \u00a0I don\u2019t have the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openarchive.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openarchive.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openarchive.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openarchive.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openarchive.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/openarchive.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/openarchive.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openarchive.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openarchive.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openarchive.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}