Journal of the Gujarat Research Society April & July 1946

The views of the JIitrrksnrahave been either set aside or inoclitied in accordance with the views of the alrryuklaa in decisions on suits coming up from the Dakhan and the district of.Ratnagiri.1 A conspicuous instance is the recognition of the sister as a got raja and giving her a high place as heir. [...] of Gujarat and it was therefore natural that the legal usages of the two areas should he the same.10 After the overthrow of the Peshwa in 1817-fti and the establishment of British rule or panunouutcv ever Iiatltiawar Gujantt and the [)akhan it was natural that the Bombay Courts should gain additional prestige and their views prevail over the entire area. [...] Even in the epoch of Muslim rule the traditions of ancient learning and acara had been conserved in Mandrastra in such celebrated centres as Paithan which was known as the " Kasi of the South." The troublous period of Sambahji's short reign and the war of independence which folowed it which shifted the area of the struggle to the Carnatic could not have been -one in which the Dharmadhikari of t [...] But with the death of Aurangzeb and the accession of Sahu settled order must have returned and the rise of the Citpavan Peshwas would have made for the restoration of the rule of law according to the Hindu ideas. [...] After the overthrow of the Peshwa in 1817 and the establishment of British paramountcy in the Indian states of Gujarat. and Kathiawar the position of the Mayukha as the chief authority on Dharmasastra was strengthened by the adoption of it by the British courts of justice.