Gijs Kruijtzer & Thomas Ertl 
Law Addressing Diversity [EPUB ebook] 
Premodern Europe and India in Comparison (13th-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.

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