Ṣadr Faujdari ʿAdālat (Urdu: صدر فوجداری عدالت, Bengali: সদর ফৌজদারি আদালত) were courts of criminal justice in Mughal and British India.
The system was instituted by Warren Hastings, the British governor-general, in 1772, in his reforms of the East India Company's growing sovereign powers.
These princely nawabs in various parts of India were either independent of, beholden to, or in collusion with British colonial authorities.
The Sadr Faujdari Adalat courts were the local juridical arm of the Mughal "princely" rulers (nawabs), whose governmental authority co-existed alongside the British in late 18th and 19th centuries.
Ultimately, over the succeeding century after their establishment, the local Indian authorities of the Sadr Faujdari Adalat were gradually supplanted by the British.