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Merchants of Virtue
- Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
Engelsk Paperback
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- Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
Engelsk Paperback

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social SciencesMerchants 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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
284
ISBN-13:
9780520390058
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520390059
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Udg. Dato:
27 dec 2022
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
27 dec 2022
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