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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1. VerfasserIn: Cherian, Divya 1983- (Verfasst von)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] University of California Press 2023
In:Jahr: 2023
weitere Schlagwörter:B Religion and beliefs
B Philosophy and Religion
B Religion: general
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