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

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 veget...

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Main Author: Cherian, Divya 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:Undetermined language
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] University of California Press 2023
In:Year: 2023
Series/Journal:South Asia across the disciplines
Further subjects:B Muslims
B Muslims (South Asia) 18th century
B Merchants
B Dalits
B Merchants (South Asia) 18th century
B Hindus
B South Asia
B Caste (South Asia) 18th century
B Dalits (South Asia) 18th century
B 1700-1799
B Intouchables - Asie méridionale - 18e siècle
B Commerçants - Asie méridionale - 18e siècle
B Hindus (South Asia) 18th century
B Musulmans - Asie méridionale - 18e siècle
B Castes - Asie méridionale - 18e siècle
B Religion: general
B Caste
B Hindous - Asie méridionale - 18e siècle
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)

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