Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia Cherian Divya
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia Cherian Divya A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's…
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Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia Cherian Divya
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Elder Prize in the Indian Social SciencesMerchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Winner of the 2022 Joseph W.
Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of "Hindu," setting it in contrast to "Untouchable" in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian