Minenkov, S.A. Legal and philosophical bases of social injustice in the Ancient India: form and contents.

Abstract: The study of any traditional system of law has its own methodological features. Consideration of legal phenomena in ancient Indian society is impossible without careful study of spiritual culture and its values. The analysis of the legal components of spiritual culture, changes in the consequences and ideas generated by it in new historical conditions presented in this article helps to correctly determine the place of each of these components in the context of a concrete historical epoch and thereby avoid the modernization so often observed, that is, the interpretation of philosophical and scientific theories, as well as religious ideas of the distant past in in the spirit and from the standpoint of modern views and doctrines.