Law Addressing Diversity : Premodern Europe and India in Comparison (13th-18th Centuries)

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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. Preface Contents Introduction Part I: State-formation and cultural and religious groups 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 Part II: Legal Pluralism The qazi, the dharmadhikari and the judge Beyond diversity Legal diversity – or the relative lack of it – in early modern Sweden Part III: Transitions to modernity Beyond dharmashastras and Weberian modernity Constitutional law and diversity in the French Revolution Contributors Index