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Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (South Asia Across the Disciplines)

Divya Cherian

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Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia.

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.

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.

In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 284 pages

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Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0520390059

ISBN13:: 9780520390058

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Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (South Asia Across the Disciplines)

Divya Cherian

4.06/5 (13 ratings)

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Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia.

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.

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.

In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 284 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0520390059

ISBN13:: 9780520390058

kindle Asin:

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