During the British rule of india

Some things became more prominent during the British times (See for example, ‘Castes of mind’ by Nicholas Dirks, though I do not completely agree this). One of them seems to be dharmasastras, as Bernard Cohn pointed out ( I seem to be more in agreement with this). Check for yourselves.
A Menu of Laws -The Pursuit of A Procrustean Dharma by Ranjan Joshi