Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka : Leiden University Press : 9789087283759 : 908728375X : 07 Feb 2023 : " Provides insight into lived experience of colonial law Rewrites the history of Roman-Dutch Law in Sri Lanka Highlights pluralities of legal practice in Dutch Sri Lanka" Navigating Pluralities marks a break in understanding the history of Roman-Dutch law in Sri Lanka. Methodologically, it challenges socio-legal studies that concentrate on major jurisdictional conflicts alone, emphasizing the lived experience of everyday practices of judicial forums. It uncovers the navigation of plural practices in the Landraad, a judicial forum set up by the Dutch East India Company in seventeenth-century Sri Lanka. A choice of laws came into play in that forum, that choice being significant at varying degrees for different areas of the law such as evidence, inheritance, land, and marriage law. While there was inevitable conflict, the local normative order was as much a social fact for the early coloni