Law Addressing Diversity : : Premodern Europe and India in Comparison (13th-18th Centuries) / / Thomas Ertl, Gijs Kruijtzer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• HerausgeberIn: Ertl, Thomas ,; Kruijtzer, Gijs ,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 220 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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