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Keywords
Dichotomous outcome
o Justice became physically and psychologically
distant to the mass of Indian population
o But also SYSTEMATISED AND UNIVERSALISED,
with Codification of Laws under
Macaulay, instead of being arbitrarily
dependent on whims and fancies of the kings
and interpretations of qazi, mufti, elders and
Panchayats.
o Indians excluded from the Judicial apparatus
yet also confident in the superiority and
certainty of laws: Ex Pabna Agrarian league:
used legal machinery to get due under Act X of
1859
Hastings: Diwani, Sadar Diwani, Faujdari, Nizamat
Cornwallis Code; District Collector-separation of
powers; contempt for Indian laws; exclusion of Indians
from judicial apparatus;
Cornwallis Code: