Law addressing diversity : pre-modern Europe and India in comparison (13th to 18th centuries)

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. Introduction / Thomas Ertl And Gijs Kruijtzer -- Muslims Among Non-muslims : Creating Islamic Identity Through Law / Ali Anooshahr -- Regulating Diversity Within The Empire : The Legal Concept Of Zimmi And The Collection Of Jizya Under The Sultans Of Delhi (1200-1400) / Blaine Auer -- Cultural Diversity, Deviance, Public Law And Criminal Justice In The Holy Roman Empire Of The German Nation / Karl Haerter -- The Qazi, The Dharmadhikari And The Judge : Political Authority And Legal Diversity In Pre-modern India / Sumit Guha -- Beyond Diversity : Mughal Legal Ideology And Politics / Corinne Lefèvre -- Legal Diversity -- Or The Relative Lack Of It -- In Early Modern Sweden / Mia Korpiola -- Beyond Dharmashastras And Weberian Modernity : Law And State Making In Nineteenth Century Nepal / Sanjog Rupakheti -- Constitutional Law And Diversity In The French Revolution / Daniel Schönpflug -- Contributors. Edited By Thomas Ertl And Gijs Kruijtzer. Papers From The Workshop Law Addressing Diversity: Pre-modern Europe And India In Comparison (12th To 17th Centuries), Held At The University Of Vienna, May 22-25, 2014. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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