10% de desconto

Merchants Of Virtue eBook

Hindus, Muslims, And Untouchables In Eighteenth-Century South Asia

de Divya Cherian
Livro eBook
Editor: University of California Press, dezembro de 2022 ‧
14,56€
10% DESCONTO CARTÃO
DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA
Ebook para ADE
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 Sciences

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.

Merchants Of Virtue

Hindus, Muslims, And Untouchables In Eighteenth-Century South Asia

de Divya Cherian

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9780520390065
Editor: University of California Press
Data de Lançamento: dezembro de 2022
Tipo de produto: eBook
Formato e Compatibilidade:
Coleção: South Asia Across The Disciplines
Classificação Temática: eBooks em Inglês > Guias Turísticos e Mapas > Ásia, Pacífico e Oceânia
EAN: 9780520390065
Acessibilidade: Ver características de acessibilidade indicadas pelo editor

LIVROS DA MESMA COLEÇÃO