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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816271903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2017

ISBN

3-11-042332-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

954

Soggetti

South Asia History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.