Snippet from constituent assembly debates. Saved this years ago. It showed up as a memory today.
"Pundit Lakshmi Kantra Maitra: Sir, it is well known that the Hindu Law has the oldest pedigree of all the known systems of jurisprudence in the world"0
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"Pundit Lakshmi Kantra Maitra: Sir, it is well known that the Hindu Law has the oldest pedigree of all the known systems of jurisprudence in the world"0
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"Dr. Mono Mohan Das (West Bengal: General): It is unjust.
Pundit Lakshmi Kanta Maitra: Yes, the Hindu law is unjust ! Hindu society is unjust! Hindus are unjust It is not possible for anybody to reply to an interruption that the Hindu law is unjust"
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Pundit Lakshmi Kanta Maitra: Yes, the Hindu law is unjust ! Hindu society is unjust! Hindus are unjust It is not possible for anybody to reply to an interruption that the Hindu law is unjust"
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"It took only three words to compose that interruption. I do not know if I have the capacity to reply to a
sweeping charge like that made in three words ' It is unjust ',"
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sweeping charge like that made in three words ' It is unjust ',"
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"Whether a system is good or bad, it is for the society to judge ; it is not for disappointed or disgruntled persons to judge. But I may say that the one surest proof of its soundness is that it has been able to stand the test of centuries."
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"No system which is intrinsically bad, unsound or unjust can endure for a long time. Hindu law and the Hindu social system governed by it have been able to withstand the shocks and revolutions which have swept over the country during the ages past".
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"..Historic cataclysms have swept off the foot of ancient civilisation of countries like Greece, Rome, Assyria, Babylonia which have all crumbled down whereas Hindu culture or community,which cannot date its origin, still continues to function with all the vigour and vitality"
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"..and I am sure providence will allow it to function, till we set about to undermine its very foundations, by legislating in these reckless and light-hearted ways"
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