Translating the Laws of Manu authorized colonial property by faking ancient origin

Evidence

This verse does not exist in the complete Critical Edition of the Mahabharata (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, launched in 1966, ten years after Ambedkar’s demise). Bhandarkar has it listed as 14.98-72 in the rejected texts, but there it occurs as the following, with a minor variation in the first word. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1165 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Codifying unwritten customary law for a colonial state transformed it into rigid written law — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 255; Colonial law created an inside-outside sphere for customary law — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 39; Archaeology and renaming manufacture an originary claim to contested land (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• A verse Ambedkar cited as Manu’s law is actually a rejected, uncanonical Mahabharata variant #complicates (0.82) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1165