“Kautilya in the classroom: Integrating ancient jurisprudential heritage from Vedas, Mahabharata, and Ramayana into modern legal education”, Opindia, April 16, 2025:

“Justice Pankaj Mithal of the Supreme Court of Bharat recently proposed that Bharatiya law schools should introduce a course titled “Dharma and Bharatiya Legal Thought” or “Foundations of Bharatiya Jurisprudence.” His suggestion is not simply a call to add one more elective to an already packed curriculum, but an invitation to engage deeply with Bharat’s own intellectual and legal heritage.

This call compels us to revisit the structure and content of Bharatiya legal education, which, to this day, remains disproportionately centred on Euro-American jurisprudence, to the neglect of indigenous traditions. Today, Bharatiya law students are required to understand Blackstone, Bentham, Austin, and Hart.

They are expected to trace the lineage of Western law through Roman edicts, the Code of Hammurabi, the Magna Carta, and the Napoleonic Code…..”

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