Law adressing diversity : pre-modern europe and india in comparison / edited by Thomas Ertl and Gijs Kruijtzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ertl, Thomas, editor.

Kruijtzer, Gijs, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asia--History--20th century.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-042332-4

OCLC:

1004884070