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]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 220 p.)
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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