Meeting of extremes in Indian legal philosophy

In this book the author has attempted to re-capitulate certain well-accepted notions of legal theory from the Indian standpoint. The term legal philosophy has been recently introduced in conjunction with jurisprudence in legal literature, and while the latter deals with legal theory and the technical import of basic legal notions, the former is concerned more with the deeper interrelations between law and life.
The author has tried to set out in brief the problem and nature of law from the time of John Austin and bring out the extremes to which legal thought has reached in the course of its development up to the present times. The object of this study is to understand present controversies and not to enter into a historical retrospect of legal thought. Hence the questions of the problem and nature of law have been approached not only from the point of view commonly applied in their treatment but also from the practical point of view as part of the problem of the individual and the community.