| Author/Contributor(s): | Kruijtzer, Gijs ; Ertl, Thomas |
| Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter |
| Date: | 10/31/2016 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.