Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Mar 23, 2014 18:19:36 GMT 5.5
We can read the history of Western judicial system(s)--how the idea of justice evolved, how the concept of judicial authority emerged, and how the authorities practiced their principles of justice and engaged in penocorrectional practices, maintained social justice and law and order in many European countries such primarily France, England, Germany, Italy and Russia, across the ages. The history covers how prison was born and evolved cross the ages. (One interesting book along this line is Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.) Colonialism spread the Western legal concepts and practices across the world (I don't know if there is any country whose legal system and a fair portion of the volume of its canonical legal texts were not informed, at least initially, by the Western legal philosophy.
While every country now has more or less its own practically, fairly well-developed legal corpus and a fairly long tradition of judicial practice to sort of maintain its daily social order, mostly influenced by western canons, I am curious to know (though it's mostly impractical considering the fact that it's totally a different discipline than mine, let alone the difficulty of owning this ambitious volume of knowledge which are mostly in the grey areas yet, even if it were my discipline) the genealogy of justice and judicial system(s) and prisons in non-western worlds as well. Particularly, I'm greatly, seriously interested in our own--our idea of justice, and the penocorrectional practices of our authorities across the ages, from ancient times through medieval to the Pre-British times. As far as I know, our honored writings, puyas, (besides rare references to criminals being punished in public, and traitors being condemned in palace dungeons--these examples or references does not form a study) did not deal with this area, though I'm not very sure if the early and later Manipuris did recognize the law as a distinct area worth being studied.
Does anybody among us, be it oja Somorjit Yengkhom, know about this? If anybody knows, would you kindly enlighten me of this? Or if you are not aware, would you kindly refer to any ancient writings, if there is any and if you know, and if I missed them?
While every country now has more or less its own practically, fairly well-developed legal corpus and a fairly long tradition of judicial practice to sort of maintain its daily social order, mostly influenced by western canons, I am curious to know (though it's mostly impractical considering the fact that it's totally a different discipline than mine, let alone the difficulty of owning this ambitious volume of knowledge which are mostly in the grey areas yet, even if it were my discipline) the genealogy of justice and judicial system(s) and prisons in non-western worlds as well. Particularly, I'm greatly, seriously interested in our own--our idea of justice, and the penocorrectional practices of our authorities across the ages, from ancient times through medieval to the Pre-British times. As far as I know, our honored writings, puyas, (besides rare references to criminals being punished in public, and traitors being condemned in palace dungeons--these examples or references does not form a study) did not deal with this area, though I'm not very sure if the early and later Manipuris did recognize the law as a distinct area worth being studied.
Does anybody among us, be it oja Somorjit Yengkhom, know about this? If anybody knows, would you kindly enlighten me of this? Or if you are not aware, would you kindly refer to any ancient writings, if there is any and if you know, and if I missed them?