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A legal code translated from Sanskrit to Persian by Brahmin scholars and then from Persian to English by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian working for the East India Company. The translation was explicitly funded (and encouraged by Warren Hastings) as a method of increasing the colonial hold over the Indies.

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http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/18century/topic_4/halhed.htm

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