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Merchants of Virtue

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

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著者・編者Cherian, Divya,
シリーズSouth Asia Across the Disciplines
出版社(U. California Pr., US)
出版年月2022.12
ページ数284 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<692-578>

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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.