Law Addressing Diversity : : Premodern Europe and India in Comparison (13th-18th Centuries) / / Thomas Ertl, Gijs Kruijtzer.
Of late, historians have been realising that South Asia and Europe have more in common than a particular strand in the historiography on "the rise of the West" would have us believe. In both world regions a plurality of languages, religions, and types of belonging by birth was in premodern...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 220 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Muslims among non-Muslims -- Regulating diversity within the empire -- Cultural diversity, deviance, public law and criminal justice in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation -- The qazi, the dharmadhikari and the judge -- Beyond diversity -- Legal diversity – or the relative lack of it – in early modern Sweden -- Beyond dharmashastras and Weberian modernity -- Constitutional law and diversity in the French Revolution -- Contributors -- Index |
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Summary: | Of late, historians have been realising that South Asia and Europe have more in common than a particular strand in the historiography on "the rise of the West" would have us believe. In both world regions a plurality of languages, religions, and types of belonging by birth was in premodern times matched by a plurality of legal systems and practices. This volume describes case-by-case the points where law and social diversity intersected. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110423327 9783110649826 9783110719543 9783110540550 9783110625264 9783110547764 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110423327 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Thomas Ertl, Gijs Kruijtzer. |