Programm- BALLB Session 2024-2025

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202 I HISTORY OF COURTS - I 80 32 20 08 100 50% 3 HRS

Course Objective:-
History tells the past and can be guide to the future. The course gives basic knowlege of
history for preparing the students for studying the particular branches of law.

UNIT-I History and Law MARKS:-14

01 Relevance of History to Law: Interdisciplinary Approach
02 State, Polity and Governance IN ANCIENT INDIA : Nature of State, Notions of
Kingship and administrative apparatus in Vedic Age, Age of Mauryas and Guptas b.
Kinship, Caste and Class: Social Differentiation, Religious Traditions and Polity
03 Kings and their Courts IN MEDIEVAL PERIOD: Cholas: Local Self-Government, Delhi
Sultanate, Administrative Apparatus, Mughals: Theory of Sovereignty, Peasant,
Zamindar system, Market Reforms, Agrarian Reforms
UNIT- II Justice and Judicial Institutions in Ancient and Medieval India MARKS:- 14

01 Sources of Law in Ancient India: Dharma, Veda, Dharmasutra, Dharma Shastra,

Tradition and Good Custom, Types of Courts and Procedures, Legal Thinkers of Ancient
India
02 Legal Traditions in Medieval India: Sources of Islamic Law, Salient Features of Islamic
Criminal Law, Hanafi School of Thought
UNIT- III Early Developments (1600- 1836) MARKS:-14
01. Charters of the East India Company: 1600, 1661, Settlements: Surat, Madras, Bombay
02 Courts: Mayor‟s Court of 1726 and Supreme Court of 1774
03. Statutes: Regulating Act, 1773; The Act of Settlement 1781, Raja Nand Kumar,
Kamaluddin, Patna Case, and Cossijurah, Adalat System: Warren Hastings‟s Judicial
Plans of 1772, 1774 and 1780; Lord Cornwallis‟s Judicial Plans of 1787, 1790 and 1793;
Lord William Bentinck‟s Judicial reforms
UNIT –IV Evolution of Law and Legal Institutions MARKS:-14
01. Development of Personal Laws, Civil and Criminal Law, Codification of Laws: Charter
of 1833, First and second Law Commission,
02. Establishment of High Courts under The Indian High Courts Act, 1861, Privy Council
and Federal Court,
03. The Indian Councils‟ Act, 1861, The Government of India Act, 1909, 1919 and 1935,
Accession of Princely States and Reorganisation of the States
UNIT-V Modern and Contemporary India MARKS:-14
01. Socio-Religious Reforms in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: Brahmo Samaj, Arya
Samaj, Pradhan Samaj, Theosophical Society, Ramkrishan Mission, Abolition of sati,
Suppression of Female Infanticide, Widow remarriage, Early marriages, uplifting of
depressed class
02. National Movement: Growth of Indian National Movement during the period of 1885 to
1919 and 1919 to 1947.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
01. A.D Mathur, Medieval Hindu Law (London: OUP 2007)
02. A.B Keith, A Constitution History of India (Allahabad: CBD 1961)
03. B. Chandra, India Struggle for Independence New Delhi, Penguin 2000