Ulrike Davy, born in 1955, is a law professor at the Faculty of Law at Universität Bielefeld and member of the university council. Her fields of expertise include human rights law, anti-discrimination law, migration and refugee law, global and European social policy, German social security law, and welfare state theory.
Antje Flüchter is spokesperson of the collaborative research center 1288 »Practices of Comparing« and a professor of early modern history at Universität Bielefeld. Her primary focus lies in the interconnected history between Asia, especially India, and Europe, in the early modern period, as well as in history of religiosity, political history, gender history and the theory of history.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
Concepts of Equality: Why, Who, What for? 11
Hierarchy as Order—Equality as Chaos? 31
Envisioning Equality in the French Revolution 71
"A Deep, Horizontal Comradeship?" 103
Minority Protection under the League of Nations: Universal and Particular Equality 131
Equality through the Lens of Racial Discrimination 167
India, the UN and Caste as a Form of Racial Discrimination: Resolving the Dispute 201
Equality under the Indian Constitution 231
Authors and Editors 255